Musk has suggested he could buy the budget airline and called O’Leary “insufferable” and “an idiot”, after O’Leary rejected the idea of using Musk’s Starlink technology to provide wifi on flights.
O’Leary said at the press conference that his team is going to X’s office in Dublin to give Musk a free Ryanair ticket to thank him for the “wonderful boost” in publicity he’s had.
“If he wants to call me an idiot, he wouldn’t be the first, and he certainly won’t be the last … But if it helps to boost Ryanair sales, you could insult me all day, every day.”
On the prospect of Musk buying the Irish airline, O’Leary said: “We’re a publicly owned company. He’s free to [buy shares] at any time, but non-European citizens cannot own a majority of European airlines.”
I took Ryanair once and I’m sure they would price it at “I’d use it only at a gunpoint” level
Plus most flights are ultra short. Are people so addicted that they can’t be offline for 30 minutes? In the time they can enjoy the Ryanair staff selling the lottery raffle tickets or asking everyone if they want to drink a €3 cup of water or if want to buy cigarettes at full retail prices