Interesting thread.
The answer to the question is a qualified "Yes".
Providing:
1. AAB steps aside. His style of management is totally unsuited to the size of company that QR has now become.
2. A competent senior management team is recruited to replace the "yes men" such as MF. That will only happen when a new CEO is in place. Everyone in the industry now knows how impossible AAB is to work for and no talented managers would leave existing jobs to move to QR at present.
The ALM guy, Stephen Vella has now moved with his team to a new company, Prime Aviation whose biggest customer is QR. They handle all aircraft acquisitions and undertake all commercial planning. Amazing, but the airline does not have its own senior commercial planning team.
ekatehtnohsabuD ... yes, I'd heard that too.