As I've stated on another thread, MOL believes in the saying 'there's no such thing as bad publicity'. He deliberately makes these ridiculous statements, carefully timed, so that he and his company are 'in the news' constantly, for free.
Some I remember include 'charging for use of the aircraft toilets', Ryanair staff to nick free pens from hotels (saving company money), recently 'stand up cabins' to accommodate more passengers, and now 'single pilot airliners'.
The man may be a tw-t, but he's not a stupid tw-t.
Incidentally, a recent 'Flight' magazine included an article about Embraer's study on potential highly-automated, single-pilot cockpits...