CHC Announces Cash Tender Offer and Related Consent Solicitation for All of Its Outstanding 7 3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2014

CHC Helicopter Corporation ("CHC") (TSX: FLY.A)(TSX: FLY.B)(NYSE: FLI) announced today that it has commenced a cash tender offer (the "Offer") for all of its outstanding 7 3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (CUSIP No. 12541CAF1) (the "Notes"). In connection with the Offer, CHC is soliciting (the "Consent Solicitation") consents (the "Consents") to amend the terms of the Notes and the indenture pursuant to which the Notes were issued (the "Indenture"). The Offer and the Consent Solicitation are being made in connection with a previously announced arrangement agreement that provides for the acquisition of all of CHC's outstanding Class A Subordinate Voting Shares and Class B Multiple Voting Shares by 6922767 Canada Inc., an affiliate of a fund managed by First Reserve Corporation (such transaction referred to herein as the "Arrangement"). The completion of the Offer and the receipt of the requisite Consents are not conditions to completion of the Arrangement or the financing thereof.

The Offer will expire at midnight, New York City time, on June 23, 2008, unless extended or earlier terminated by CHC (the "Expiration Date"). Holders who wish to receive the Total Consideration (as defined below) for the Notes must validly tender and not validly withdraw their Notes on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 9, 2008, unless extended or earlier terminated (the "Consent Payment Deadline").

Holders tendering their Notes will be required to consent to proposed amendments to the Indenture and the Notes, which would eliminate substantially all of the restrictive covenants contained in the Indenture and the Notes (except the covenants relating to change of control and asset sale offers), eliminate certain events of default, modify the covenant regarding mergers and consolidations, and modify or eliminate certain other provisions, including certain provisions relating to defeasance, contained in the Indenture and the Notes. Holders may not tender their Notes without also delivering Consents and may not deliver Consents without also tendering their Notes.

The total consideration for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to the Offer is $1,015.00 (the "Total Consideration"). The Total Consideration includes a consent payment of $5.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (the "Consent Payment"). Subject to the terms and conditions of the Offer and the Consent Solicitation, the Consent Payment will be made in respect of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn and as to which Consents to the proposed amendments are delivered on or prior to the Consent Payment Deadline. Holders must validly tender and not validly withdraw Notes on or prior to the Consent Payment Deadline in order to be eligible to receive the Total Consideration. Holders who validly tender their Notes after the Consent Payment Deadline and on or prior to the Expiration Date will be eligible to receive only the tender offer consideration of $1,010.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, representing an amount equal to the Total Consideration less the Consent Payment.

Holders whose Notes are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn and are accepted for payment in the Offer will also receive accrued and unpaid interest in respect of such purchased Notes from the last interest payment date preceding the date on which payment for purchased Notes is made (the "Payment Date") to, but not including, the Payment Date. The Payment Date is expected to occur promptly after the Expiration Date, assuming all conditions to the Offer have been satisfied or waived.

The Offer and the Consent Solicitation are made upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated the date hereof (the "Offer to Purchase") and the related Consent and Letter of Transmittal. The Offer and the Consent Solicitation are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, including receipt of Consents sufficient to approve the proposed amendments and the closing of the Arrangement having occurred, or such Arrangement occurring substantially concurrent with the Expiration Date. The Offer to Purchase contains important information which should be read carefully before any decision is made with respect to the Offer.

CHC has retained Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated to act as Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent in connection with the Offer and the Consent Solicitation. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated may perform the services contemplated by the Offer and the Solicitation in conjunction with its affiliates (including, without limitation, its affiliates incorporated under the federal laws of Canada). Persons with questions regarding the Offer or the Consent Solicitation should contact Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated at (800) 624-1808 (toll-free) or (212) 761-1941 (collect). Persons residing or incorporated in Canada should contact Morgan Stanley Canada Limited at (416) 943-8417. The Offer to Purchase and other documents relating to the Offer and the Consent Solicitation are expected to be distributed to holders of the Notes beginning today. Requests for documentation may be directed to D.F. King & Co., Inc., the Information Agent, which can be contacted at (212) 269-5550 (banks and brokers, call collect) or (888) 869-7406 (all others, call toll-free).