Michael O'Leary Quotes

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• Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.
• The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem…
• We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.
• Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"
• Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.
• ‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
• Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
• The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.
• If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.
• We think they should pay €60 for being so stupid.
• Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with…
• Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.
• Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.
• Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.
• I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their…
• She's coming here with Aer Lingus.
• The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some…
• It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other.
• MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards…
• All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!

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