What's the latest news from the Bush has everyone been paid yet or are the new owners still keeping everyone dangling by a thread?

Everyone's been paid.

18 hours ago a friend of mine said "haven't been paid for Jan and payday for Feb is next Wednesday".

Everyone has been paid for Jan nearly a month late?

This is a real sorry state of affairs. I have very fond memories of working for Macs and Premiair and it would be a shame if it were to end the same way as some other well known companies like Sterling.

It certainly sounds like the writing is on the wall, an upset workforce, many now actively jumping ship, customers taking aircraft elsewhere for maintenance and what is to become of the RTO, surely they will be on the move soon....!
It is the end of an era, Air Hanson - BBA / Signature - Lynton - PremiAir.
A lot of good people have worked for those companies lets hope those that are left find a good employer to work for.

If Premiar staff jump ship - where to?
Which UK operators will survive the recession?
Bond have deep pockets, not sure about other onshore operators?

A number of Premiair engineers seem to be joining Gama at Fairoaks and some customer S76s have now appeared there on maintenance.

I wonder if the new owners have again defaulted on their contracted obligation to its loyal remaining workforce ?

I guess by the lack of recent posts on this subject there can't be anyone left at Blackbushe..

Still hearing PremiAir callsigns on the radio as of Tue 5th.
VONC occasionally appears out of the hangar at Fairoaks with rotor blades attached but as far as I'm aware isn't flown.

Seems like most Premiair engineers have left and joined Gama at Fairoaks or Vector in Gosport with one or two to ECUK. How long can the business survive at Blackbushe with no almost no staff and most customers already gone elsewhere?

well no pay this week :( down to 6 heli's ,end of the month will be down to about 5 may be 3 engineers, but on a firm footing for going forward:ok:
HOW with no customer's and no staff

Can someone tell me what has happened to the pilots? How many there was and is now? and where the leavers might have gone too

It all seems too sad
 

So what actually remains of this once iconic brand?
From a long range it all seems very sad. Is there an effective management in place, how many pilots, engineers, ground staff etc?
With Spring upon us and major corporate events looming, business should be on the up? Growth, prosperity and employment one would think....

I am told a number of pilots went offshore and a number have been picked up by former customers.
You gotta feel for the office staff.:{

PremiAir is a sinking ship ,nobody trusts Avery ,he's full of broken promise's.
Every month he has said there is investment coming ,but nothing comes ,he has lost the trust of the staff and customers .Going back 3/4 years we had 67 helicopters at the bush both hangars were packed out and the pad was full ,now were down to 5 customers left ,back in the day of hanson we were the best, everyone wanted to be there ,the customer came frist ,I think what went wrong was selling to Davis and having a certain MD :mad:and his buddy as engineenring director ,wish we had gone in to adminastration we would be on the up now

Jonathan (Mawson i think?)
 

Hello folks

Back in 2007 when I was still a bobby I got a ride in a Police 135 in Mereyside and there was a pilot covering for the regular pilot. It was a good night got a mixture of pursuits and bits of this and that. I chatted with the pilot whose name I think was Jonathan Mawson (First name Def Jonathan, last name not too sure)

Anyone happen to know of him and where he is nowadays? I thought it would just be nice to get n touch again and let him know what I have done job wise since, ie leaving the police and after doing bits of flying in diff parts of the world now managed to land a job offshore in Asia.

Alternatively if youre reading this please feel to PM me. Cheers

Thanks for your time

Garfs

Well the name sounds sort of familiar...:ok:

I'm off in April...

Since when is your first name Jonathan? Or is your stage name?
He hasn't been the same since he was on the tele......:}

We love you in any case!

dmousair, that must be an enviable record, 12 years since joining and 6 posts! Well done for being an expert lurker!

Hope you are well.