Caractacus has said
"Having their cake and eating it perhaps?
If Ryanair wish to be listed as UK FTSE 100 company then they strengthen the case for regulation by the CAA."
The reverse is actually true as it stands.
FR is de jure an Irish company and has IAA regualtion. The FR case is STRENGTHENED by denial of listing on FTSE 100 as they have a primary listing Ireland and by association the CAA case is WEAKENED.
Q.E.D.
You obviously didn't get that ploy then? They don't wish to be listed on the FTSE.
1. What they wanted was to hit out at BA and point and laugh. ACHIEVED
2. Strengthen their case against the CAA.
ACHIEVED
3. And of course that usual bonus - FREE PUBLICITY.
ACHIEVED
It's a war out there...