Maybe. . . . although I doubt it, and anyone with even the faintest ideas of the variables thrown at you by nature/technology wouldn't dream of getting in the back. . . .but then again, a brain is not a prerequisite to ticket purchase (just a tick in the box & a CC number) so. . .
In the meantime, that is then, this is now, and "Yer Man" is (yet again) making a tw@t of himself.
He was (?) a good businessman (for the shareholders at least) although he has always been a bit of a 1 trick pony, now, it is difficult to see him as anything other than a largely irrelevant embarassment to his staff, & aviation in general.
Way past his "sell by date".