Stuart Hughes I don't believe it was a commercial flight.
I don't think the reply was about whether the flight was on an AOC or a "private" flight.
My reading of the comment was that it was aimed at the pressures placed on any captain (whether rotary or fixed wing) in a small-fleet operation.
Often job security is non-existent, because if you do not comply with commercial demands, the beneficial owner will find another more compliant captain.
I have no idea whether this was the case here, but I hold my hand up and say that I am guilty of taking unreasonable risks to keep my own (fixed-wing) job because there is so little work out there at the moment.