Paxboy,
I would suggest taking a look at FRs other senior executives, and you will find quite a few MOL "actalikes" amongst them!
MOL has created the Ryanair today, but the airline is still Ryanair, not MOLair, or as some might say in French, MOlair'est.
Maude, Ratner has made perhaps the single most famous quote in business history, but he has also since bounced back to run a multimillion dollar turnover online jewellers (which is also profitable iirc).
MOL makes "gaffes" pretty much every day, but if they are really that bad, the board or shareholders would have kicked him off long ago.
Find me a company with more than one employee which doesn't have its own internal politics. In fact, looking at some of the characters who have set up airlines in the past, who needs employees for internal conflict?