Actually a lot of non airline peeps think Ryanair is a UK airline for obvious reasons. It's not thought of as a national anything, only as "the cheapest option", and there's nought wrong with that.
Aer Lingus is as Irish as Air France is French and we don't need to dumb it down anymore.
Do KLM need to re-brand as Air Netherlands?
Globespan as Air Scotland?
Can you guys really see there being an Aer Lingus 18 months after FR get their feet in the door. All they have ever done is slash the bottom line and take out costs, they don't have any commercial acumen of running a full service airline of any description. Aer Lingus Handling? Ground staff would be outsourced ASAP. MOL wants to bring lo cost to long haul, Aer Lingus would be competing with that if it remained as a service carrier.
Routes where FR and EI compete? I mean COME ON! Do some reading, there's at least three good books on this that show how they operate!
If Ryanair get their hands on Aer Lingus they'd be gone on under two years. How?
"Due to exceptionally difficult trading and changed market conditions Ryanair regret to announce that their subsidiary, Aer Lingus has failed to reach the ( arbritary ) expected level of revenue growth and as a result etc etc."
Google "Frank Lorenzo" , "Continetal" and "Texas Air" if you think this sort of stuff isn't well planned....
MOL recognises that there are huge opportunities for interline traffic
Goes against what he's DONE for the last decade, and also everything he's said on the matter in the same period.
How on earth can a 2nd terminal cost €1 Billion when a terminal in Hahn by Ryanair Costed only €50m for the exact same passenger numbers
Because it's a crap tin shed. It's the opposite extreme.
People have to get over the MOL thing he is a fing good business man and the way this industry is going I for one would feel alot more secure working for him or a company ran by him.
There are a HELL of a lot of young men and women in the Bishop's Stortford and Stansted area who would not agree with that. Of course they won't tell you as they'd be sacked.