Pre-owned helicopter sales fell in 2019insight Alasdair Whyte 7 Feb 20 0Sales in the pre-owned helicopter market fell year-on-year in 2019, according to Aero Assets’ 2019 Annual Pre-Owned Helicopter Market Trends Report. $444m worth of civil… Read more
HAI Heli Expo 2020 – OEM round upinsight Alasdair Whyte 5 Feb 20 0To announce at shows or not to announce at shows? That’s the question for OEMs planning their event coverage. Airbus generally prefers big announcements to… Read more
Growth slows in Asia-Pacific helicopter market.insight Alasdair Whyte 28 Jan 20 0Following four years of substantial helicopter fleet growth in Asia, expansion the growth rate halved in 2019. That is according to Asian Sky Group’s (ASG)… Read more
European Rotors – can it fly?insight Alasdair Whyte 24 Jan 20 0This article originally appeared as part of our Helicopter Investor Weekly Newsletter. If you want these articles in your inbox before they appear on the… Read more
New decade, new startinsight Alasdair Whyte 21 Jan 20 0 It has not been such a bad few years for helicopter leasing after all. In 2010, less than 1% of the world’s helicopter fleet… Read more
Right helicopter, wrong time for Bristowinsight Alasdair Whyte 13 Jan 20 0This originally appeared as part of our Helicopter Investor Weekly newsletter series. Click here to subscribe. What a difference six years can make. At Heli-Expo… Read more
Thinking long-terminsight Alasdair Whyte 22 Nov 19 0This article originally appeared as part of our Helicopter Investor Weekly Newsletter. To read these stories first, subscribe to our newsletter . It is… Read more
Proposed bill would prohibit all ‘non-essential’ flights over New Yorkinsight Alasdair Whyte 30 Oct 19 0New Yorkers might live happily with the roar of traffic down Fifth Avenue, but it seems that some of them object to the noise of… Read more
New York State of Flyinginsight Alasdair Whyte 25 Oct 19 0UPDATE: Flight restrictions over New York City right now are exclusively limiting Helicopter Tourism flights. New York Helicopter operates exclusively tourism flights and the NYCEDEC’s… Read more
Super Puma hits new delivery milestoneinsight Alasdair Whyte 23 Sep 19 0When the SA332 Super Puma first flew in 1978, many were impressed by its performance. But few suspected that 40 years later the Super Puma… Read more
Exclusive: Chris Bradshaw explains how ERA is staying afloat during the downturninsight Alasdair Whyte 16 Aug 19 0Now is not the best of times to be a helicopter operator in the oil and gas market. Even the giants of the market are… Read more
PRICE Systems helps Uber estmate prices for Uber Airinsight Alasdair Whyte 24 Jul 19 0PRICE Systems, a company providing cost estimating solutions, is helping Uber and its partners in the Uber Air initiative in estimating the optimum price per… Read more
We could be flying, yeah!insight Alasdair Whyte 24 Jul 19 0Airbus recently announced a partnership with Groupe ADP, the RATP group, the Paris Ile-de-France region and the French civil aviation authority (DAGC) for the development… Read more
Comment: Do Bristow and PHI’s woes herald years of uncertainty for O&G operators?insight Alasdair Whyte 24 Apr 19 0Chess is arguably overused as a metaphor for business strategy, but actually is quite apt for the difficulties oil-and-gas helicopter operators find themselves facing in… Read more
Analysis: PHI files for Chapter 11 – what have we learnt? insight Alasdair Whyte 18 Mar 19 0Anyone with a passing interest in the large oil and gas helicopter operator market would not have been surprised that PHI has filed for Chapter 11. Primarily, PHI had… Read more
Comment: Is Bristow as bad as it looks?insight Alasdair Whyte 5 Mar 19 0Bristow Helicopters is currently under intense market scrutiny stemming from its failure to file its third-quarter results for 31 December 2018 on time. “Material weaknesses”… Read more
Down market – David Martin on how Sikorsky is weathering the downturninsight Alasdair Whyte 25 Feb 19 0Sikorsky has weathered the market downturn by sticking to what it knows best. The US helicopter manufacturer is firmly rooted in the oil-and-gas and military… Read more
Ahead of the curve: Airbus’s Jörg Müller on urban air mobilityinsight Alasdair Whyte 13 Dec 18 0The City Airbus VTOL concept The best-known company in urban aviation is Uber. Its Uber Elevate project has captured the imagination of many of the… Read more
The world’s first Hoverbike: Q&A with Hoversurf’s Joseph Segura-Conninsight Alasdair Whyte 13 Dec 18 0The world’s first hoverbike, Hoversurf’s Scorpion 3, did not have the smoothest of landings when it entered the industry at GITEX 2017, Dubai’s annual tech… Read more
Why 2018 is a year of change for helicopter leasinginsight Alasdair Whyte 24 Nov 18 0The year 2014 was clearly the top of the cycle, 2018 is now showing all the signs of being the turning point for offshore helicopters.… Read more
