Rotorcraft

Today’s Insight takes a look at the herculean efforts of aerial firefighting crews in response to the Los Angeles fires.  Utilising public flight tracking data, we reveal over 20 firefighting rotorcraft operating in the Los Angeles region between Santa Monica Airport, Van Nuys Airport, and Camarillo Airport on 11 January, 2025. These included Sikorsky Firehawks…

We would like to wish everyone reading this a very Happy New Year with best wishes for a prosperous and healthy year ahead. We appreciate the audience that has built up over the last year and, if you aren’t already, please do follow our LinkedIn page here for regular updates on the mission critical rotorcraft…

This week we are showcasing the average age of the fleets for the top 15 civil rotorcraft operators. We’ve used Cirium data to create a ridgeline plot visualisation, filtered as noted in the image footnote. This follows our Insight of 13 June about the retirement of older oil and gas crew change helicopters. We commented…

New capacity analysis in the heavy and super-medium segments by LCI Analytics paints a very interesting picture around supply and demand, with age out assumptions driving large parts of the narrative.  Background We’ve been crunching the numbers for the future evolution of the heavy and super medium offshore fleets. This follows animated discussion at last…

07 June 2024 We’re reflecting on a busy and engaging two days at the Helicopter Investor Conference in London. The event was a success, with a crowd of familiar faces and new attendees, sparking dynamic interactions and lively debates.  Steve Robertson, MD of LCI Analytics, addressed the conference on two panels – the first entitled…

19 April 2024 The offshore wind industry has experienced tremendous growth this century but needs to treble again in the next decade to maintain the 1.5C pathways as per COP28 targets. Some interesting macro and micro themes are contained within the GWEC Global Wind Report published this week (download here). Providing an overall summary of…

11 April 2024 In recent weeks, many companies have been reporting results for year-end 2023, providing a useful opportunity to ‘health-check’ the state of the offshore industry, including mission critical rotorcraft operations.   There are a myriad of published financial measures and we have chosen to focus on EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation)…