What utter bollocks from ryanair. What a guy MOL is, I mean what a guy. Quoted by reuters as saying "they don't call me santie for nothing" in relation to his free flights promo.
People at Dublin would do well not to panic. Aviation across EU and US will pick up again in a few months. To go down the road of Ryanair calling all the shots would produce short term gains with serious long term losses. Rather like selling your soul to the devil. Budget airlines realise the market will pick up again, and so also realise they must shout long and hard as quickly as possible to get what they want before their nonsense about 'only budget airlines can work' gets blown out of the water.
The Irish government would be wise and right to do all it can to ensure air lingus survives. In a few months this will all be a thing of the past.