At a meeting with shareholders at the airline's AGM in Dublin, Mr O'Leary said the airline does not need the agreement of pilots to take back a week of their leave.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail
So more of the same will work really well Mr. O'Leary (take leave back because he can-a sure way to engender more co-operation.)
In the Australian context, who recalls Mr. Joyce telling all and sundry that 'his own staff were 'kamikazes'? The play book is the same. They speak with fork tongues.
Southwest Airlines is different,
"It is nothing short of a kamikaze campain," Mr Joyce said, directing his attack at the Australian International Pilots Association, the Australian Licensed Engineers Association and also the Transport Workers Union.
Southwest Airlines:
'Employees are treated more as a source of value, rather than as a cost. Consequently, it has never retrenched any of its workers.'
There are other ways to do things, Southwest has done it for 46 years. To dismantle an adversarial IR/HR framework takes serious commitment, treating people with respect just isn't part of the Ryanair model. Nor is it many airlines that replicate it, including Australia's Qantas group.