I must say I never get it either! And people think things are "free". Nothing is free, except the air!

Fly BA and they charge £200 your baggage is "free"
Fly Ryanair and they charge £30 for the ticket and £30 for the baggage and people compalin about Ryanair. £200 versus £60 - I know which one is most expensive!

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Missed it. Can someone sum up as I haven't time now to listen to the podcast.

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The people of Ireland are too stupid to vote for men like O'leary.

therefore, we deserve the uselss bunch of cowards we have an we deserve the hard times ahead.

However ...Politicians can run neither an economy nor an airline. Leary can at least run an airline so that puts him ahead of our politicians.

Heard it. One thing that did stand out was when he said "we work them.....we work hard at it". Translated from self-interruption: "we work them hard."

I wonder why he always intersperses profanities in his vocabulary? To appear as "the common man"? To shock people? "look at me, I'm rich so I can swear as I want in a public forum"?
I don't find it shocking, I find it off-putting to hear anyone in the public fora use profanities. It wastes my time to listen to irrevelant additions to speech.

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There are lies, damn lies and debatable points. "I'm not shouting, I'm making an assertive point." M. Martin

The Gov't are rubbish.
Throw in some swear words of choice.

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The enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy.

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

There are lies, damn lies and debatable points. "I'm not shouting, I'm making an assertive point." M. Martin

Heard the interview as well today.
Impressive without the usual amount of sniping comments.

The problem for the government when it comes to O'Leary is that he's so damn successful (and in the notoriously difficult airline industry at that).
His success also has massive knock-on benefits to the overall economy from tourism etc. A lot of people are dependant on him.

Consequently, when he criticises them, its from someone who knows what he's talking about, thus making them hard to deflect.
His opinions have serious clout.

The image of the bumbling brians and their recent handling of the financial crisis doesn't help their case and plays directly into his hands.

Well at least he doesn't keep saying "Janoworramween" "TuTellUDaTruth" and more of these inanities which so many others assail us with these days. He's not big on "going forward" either or "at this point in time" so I'll suffer him until he increases the annoyance levels by a few more points. And I'm tinkin' he don't fly to "Lanzarawheeeee" eider.

His statement about getting rid of all quangos and saving an immediate 8 billion made sense.

A bit like how it would make sense to get rid of all expenses. Imagine if you scrapped the whole lot and then told them to come with an expenses system that worked and quangos you actually need and the staffing numbers they actually require.

How long do you think it would take? My guess, about a fortnight. Self preservation is an amazing motivating tool especially when applied to leeches.

Michael O'Leary can only act in a dictatorial setting. His inability to compromise would be a serious flaw in running a government.