Customers will drive change. They likely will loose some contracts due to their safety record. they will offer the few customers that stick with them rates no one else will match with single digit margins and they will struggle through that way for a few years, and either emege from the ashes, or sell out. Its no fun, but every major company has been through it at some point, and its often not within the control of the company, so try not to judge, at least until there is some data to evaluate.

The customers are the problem. They talk out of both sides of their mouth. The oil company CEO's and safety people pontificate about Safety being priority one. They talk about wanting safe operators. Then they turn their procurement department vultures loose on the transportation companies and drive them to cut corners or be forced into bankruptcy. The operators who have robust training on both the ops and maintenance side simply cost more. You want to be safe? Pay it. Sadly they care more about their bottom line than they do their own people. They can say what they want, but to the oil companies, the only thing that is finite is the oil reserve. There Is an endless pool of people. You are replaceable in the oil companies business model. That won't change.

Did 30 years, half in operational management, GOM. Five years wearing a suit and catering to celebs, politico and other idols in NYC. You are mere cattle. So was i!

had to answer to celebrities, politicians and "idols", all in NYC

somebody gets it.

RLC was considered a pretty safe operator up until a few weeks ago. The oil companies gets bids and make their choice. Nobody is "turned loose on" or forcing anybody to do anything. You can be certain the RLC bid was the lowest and everybody knows why. The offshore helicopter business doesn't change. 

You say operators must cut corners or go out of business and in the same breath you say there are operators that don't but cost more. Which is it?

You don't get it? Should I get out the crayons, draw some stick figures and use smaller words?

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when a company chooses the cheapest option. If you want somebody to love you and care about you, get a dog, not a job. Cry harder about the RLC's and Westwinds being "forced" to run their business the way they do. 

The root cause of gom accidents is because the managers have to answer to celebrities in nyc 

 "procurement department vultures" are out in the parking lot

What in the world does raising per diem and mileage have to do with their safety record?? 

you can't possibly be that dense. FAA is not going to shut them down. 

All four bodies recovered in Gulf of Mexico helicopter crash | AP News

I wonder if a tiedown was left on but I dont know what the winds were that morning.