Waffles anyone?
Good evening, Waffler. Perhaps you'd care to enlighten us on just how much you spent on your stake in Aer Lingus, and more to the point, how large the personal guarantee you signed since the value of your leveraged investment has declined from your purchase price of nearly €3 to today's closing price of 52 cents?
Moreover, perhaps you'd care to explain why you bothered in the first place since Ryanair's objective is to prevent, and indeed reverse, the decline of Aer Lingus, to invest massively in the company and have it not only survive, but thrive, with employment, profitability (imagine that) and all the other fruit to fall from the tree of success? Why would you object to such a vision of the future?
I would genuinely like to know, and if you are who you say you are you're in an ideal position to comment, why on earth would you and your Aer Lingus colleagues object to Ryanair rescuing Aer Lingus when your airline is in a moribund financial state, moments from total ruin, losing €2 million daily and where by any reasonable measure, Michael O'Leary and Ryanair is about success, growth and a positive future. Why on earth would you elect, by your foolish and failed investment, not to be a part of that?
I put it to you that IALPA and it's incompetent leadership have so poisoned the well of Irish aviation, so befouled the cause of truth, that you have permitted dogma to eclipse reason.