grounded  

The big losers are the patients who need care but because of the reduced number of resources nothing will be available.

I don't want to see any one out of work but we all know that the above is not the crisis you'd have us believe. This industry is long over due to self correct. About one in ten patients actually need air transport. Everyone went by ground in the past. A town of 4,000 obviously doesn't need two helicopters, if any at all. A positve is that we'll see fewer of our friends and coworkers being killed in crashes where they were flying passengers that should have been driven to the hospital safely, efficiently, and much more economically.