accelalt,
I have to say, with the greatest of respect you're talking rubbish. Have you any idea of how many support staff are required to run an airline?? By the sounds of it, you dont.
Is a receptionist revenue generating? Is an engineer? What about an Ops controller? Going by your logic you'd get rid of them all? Good luck running an airline without them.
As for the head office, they only occupy half of the building. The size of your premises doesnt expand exponentially with the amount of aircraft you operate so that knocks your Ryanair arguement on the head. I know airlines with 20-30 aircraft and have buildings 3-4 times the size of the Aer Arann HQ.
The levels of staff have been cut down to the bone, you've no idea the hours some people put in there on a daily basis, so again good luck getting rid of most of them because again you'll be left with no one.
There are some areas that definitely need to be addressed, they just need one or two key people and the place can move forward again.....