Mike.
Your keeness to help is applauded, no sarcasm intended. But the word is that even your rose tinted spectacles have lost their hue.
How about telling the boys and girls how it really is?
I suppose the positive aspect is that with all those leaving Netjets Europe (50 thus far in 2006) there will always be openings. The most obvious being the one that appears when one bends over and spread ones cheeks.