Three things.
1. Open Skies Cometh
2. Heathrow Slots
3. Ryanair Atlantic and those persistent 777 rumours.
All the rest is padding. Or, as JM Brown of the FT wrote this morning...
Mr O'Leary's chummy disposition belies a brilliant but often ruthless business brain. No-one can question his achievement in transforming Ryanair from an airline carrying 4m passengers in 1998 to one carrying more than 40m this year. What's more, low cost is now the favoured model for almost all short- haul services. The proposed takeover, Mr O'Leary argued, is in line with other European consolidation, and therefore should not trigger a regulatory challenge. Where the proposed deal is unusual is that it is a low-fares operator that is acquiring the flag-carrier, not the other way around.
Oh, and Sunfish, you might care to have a look
here or if, as I suspect, you prefer you stories in pictures, then
here before embarrassing yourself further with your hokey, irrelevant south seas prognostications. Two point two nine
Billion €uros cash in the bank is enough to be going on with, wouldn’t you say?