QR will make it. The airline has very significant state backing, good routes, a new fleet and decent crews. Whatever anyone thinks about the boss, he lives and breathes his job and has dragged the airline up by its bootstraps (cue ritual tirade of abuse and accusations of stoolpigeon behaviour). He will move on to larger projects, and as QR gets bigger its management will become less, er, personalised. Is this a good thing? Hard to say at this stage......at least they are paying heed to their customers needs, unlike certain other carriers that spring to mind.