How do you "expand during the downturn"
You don't. So how do you deal with new aircraft arriving weekly?
It's all unravelling for micko.
How best to disguise an enormous loss announcement? Talk crap about ordering 400 aircraft, despite rapidly scaling back the existing schedule. Unfortunately Airbus didn't read the script so Mickos planned bidding war didn't get started. Not that he wants/needs/can afford the aircraft but a bidding war would distract nicely from the very real financial problems ryanair face.
What will the next invented distraction be?