Quote Originally Posted by nicegirlsarenice View Post
One of the greatest entrepreneurs and real job-creators in Ireland, one of the major faces of Ireland abroad.

First it was 9/11 and the aftermath of checking passengers so much making it impossible to operate the "no frills" airline they had been selling.

Then the fuel prices skyrocketed and look to continue to rise.

Then the Irish government refused to allow Michael O' Leary have hangar 6 causing him to move 300 jobs abroad.

Then the Icelandic volcano happened and caused millions of euro of lost revenue and traumatic experience for some of the people flying.

And now he has to pay for all the accommodation and food costs for all of his passengers costing hundreds of euros each for in some cases a €4 ticket?


I have sympathies for him too. I thought that 'forces of nature' like the volcano excluded airlines from compensating anything other than cost of flight. If he had flown his planes in spite of the restrictions imposed he would have been seen as a money grabbing boll**.