Helicopter business taking off again after scant trade last year
Some experts have estimated that work has probably halved since 2008. “Last year was very quiet,” says Micheál O’Donovan. “However, this year, thankfully, there has been a slight improvement.”
What was it like at the peak of the boom in the flying game, before the global recession? “Along with corporate work, golf, of course, was a major part of the flying business and still is, to a degree. I would often have been flying a group of golfers wanting to play in as many golf courses as they could. And, in Ireland, with the road network that we have, the helicopter was the obvious choice to get from one course to the next.
