Absolutely right on, sir. I understand the desire to help a friend, but this will either end up in pilots losing their positions at some other management company, or in the case of Part 91 pilots, a considerable reduction in pay and/or benefits. Even in the case of pilots whose operation is about to be shut down - is putting the aircraft under management really going to convince the owner to keep the plane? You'd have guarantee a hell of a lot more than 250 hours of charter per year to make it a revenue-neutral proposition for the owner.

As far as grabbing an airplane from another operator - our company operates 4 Hawker 800's among other aircraft. We pay our pilots well (for charter,) and our maintenance is excellent. Anybody that tries to poach one of our aircraft by offering the owner a "better deal" is only going to be able to accomplish that by skimping on one of those two items.