Airhumberside, you can not start new routes and open new bases without a/c and Ryanair can not change how soon it gets them nice new a/c from boeing any sooner. So thats why it needs to buy another airline to play catch up, also is skyeurope does go tits up, it will be a nice cheap airline to buy as an on going concern from its creditors. Plus is will open up new routes into east european markets which Ryanair so far have not really tapped into.
FR receive a number of new aircraft each season. If they focus expansion for that season on attacking SkyEurope (says 2 aircraft at Prague, 3 aircraft at Vienna and 2 at Bratislava) then they could considerably damage SkyEurope while not having an aircraft issue. Plus they can avoid integration issues. And this is exactly the sort of move I could see MOL doing, however bad it would be for the staff
Not seen this posted anywhere before. Is it for charters or scheduled? LGW based I presume?