Established Member
Certified E-I Addict
when i was a kid an airline flight was hundreds,
O'Leary's dad headed GPA, another trend setting business.
O'Leary figured empty seats were real waste on flights, if he
could get a bum on it, the fare would be money off the fuel bill.
he has encouraged people to travel more freely, his business model
thirsts revenue too.
He is the greatest businessman this country has ever produced.
He who laughs last, doesn't get the joke.
Established Member
Addicted to E-I
Maybe you guys should make him prime ministerOriginally Posted by Johnson
My future husband, Richard sais hello to the forum...
Prickly (31-03-11)
Established Member
Certified E-I Addict
hmm income tax might suddenly jump to 96%, no tax free allowances and all the yank multi nationals would up sticks faster than you could shout bailout!
Established Member
Certified E-I Addict
''Maybe you guys should make him prime minister''
i hope he reads that1!!!
I didn't say he would be a good politician. They are two different things.
He who laughs last, doesn't get the joke.
Well he couldn't do much worse than the shower that's all ready running the country
People often talk about O'Leary as if he had invented cheap tickets. He didn't. Low cost carriers appeared in a lot of places at roughly the same time, some earlier. He didn't even invent Ryanair. If there hadn't been a Michael O'Leary we would still have a low cost airline, it might be a different one, but it would probably still be crap.
“I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly; you make one quite giddy!”
“All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
warmcome (31-03-11)
Yep this is true. I'd guess Ryanair just about break even on Flight ticket sales : flight overheads.
The whole point of putting bums on seats is essentially to get 200 or so people on metal tube for a couple of hours so they can sell you overpriced crap. Tis why they practically give them away sometimes.
Lol as for making O'Leary Taoiseach/PM, the guy would probably knick everything that wasn't nailed down in the Dail when he left office. He's an arrogant feck but you can't help but admire him in some ways.
O'Leary's father had nothing to do with GPA, Guinness Peat Aviation was setup and run by Tony Ryan, later founder of Ryanair. O'Leary was a tax consultant for Stokes Kennedy who meet with Ryan and advised him on his taxes, also O'Leary was in school with one of Ryans sons so that helped him get a job as Tony Ryans assistant / advisor. If memory serves, I think he took Dennis O'Briens job. The when Ryanair was up and running they went through one or two CEO's before O'Leary (who was keeping an eye on the place for Ryan) was given the reigns.
warmcome (31-03-11)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
