2 h. ago Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary warns summer 2026 travel will be a ‘mess’

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has issued a warning to travellers going on holiday this summer.

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2 h. ago Ryanair boss makes proposition to Musk as airline ownership row continues

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary joked that he and Elon Musk should settle their spat with an arm wrestle “like old farts do” after the billionaire hinted that he would buy the budget airline.

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3 h. ago Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary: Europe needs to stop trying to pander to Donald Trump

The Ryanair chief said Europe needed a more ‘belligerent’ approach to the US administration.

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4 h. ago Michael O’Leary challenges Elon Musk to arm wrestle to settle Ryanair

Exclusive: Airline boss calls proposal from The Independent for test of strength ‘a brilliant idea’

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4 h. ago Micheal Martin ‘spends more time abroad than Elton John’, says Michael O’Leary

The Ryanair chief executive accused the Taoiseach of being ‘too busy on his worldwide tour’.

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5 h. ago Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary brands Musk’s X a ‘cesspit’ in ongoing row with tech billionaire

It comes after Elon Musk floated the idea of buying the budget airline

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5 h. ago Ryanair boss taunts Elon Musk with free flight ticket as ‘battle of the billionaires’ erupts

Exclusive: Micheal O’Leary dismissed bid to buy the carrier, saying ‘non-Europeans cannot control a European airline’

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6 h. ago Ryanair's Michael O'Leary goads Elon Musk with 'Big "Idiot" Sale' as pair continue to trade insults after Tesla boss called for him to be sacked for refusing to use Starlink on flights

The Ryanair boss thanked Musk for giving his company extra free publicity, for which he offered a free Ryanair ticket in gratitude.

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6 h. ago Everything we know about the Elon Musk spat with Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary

Elon Musk has suggested he could buy Ryanair and has called for the chief executive Michael O’Leary to be fired

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6 h. ago Ryanair boss rejects Elon Musk takeover branding all social media 'a cesspit'

Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary said 'I've four teenage children - there's nothing Elon Musk can say to me that my kids haven't already said' in a press conference this morning

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10 h. ago Elon Musk claims he could buy Ryanair amid spat with boss Michael O'Leary

"Musk knows even less about airline ownership rules than he does about aircraft aerodynamics."

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21 h. ago Elon Musk trolled by Ryanair in brutal manner over his 'idiot' threat to buy airline

After Elon Musk reached out to Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary to buy the airline, bosses at the business have slammed the billionaire in a way that only the airline could

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22 h. ago Ryanair launches ‘Big Idiot’ seat sale as spat with Elon Musk intensifies

‘Book today before Musk gets one’ reads the sales pitch

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25 h. ago Elon Musk threatens to buy Ryanair and 'put a man called "Ryan" in charge' amid feud with Michael O'Leary

Tesla boss Musk drew up a poll where he asked his 232.5million followers whether he should 'Buy Ryan Air and restore Ryan as their rightful ruler'.

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26 h. ago Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO ‘an idiot’

Tesla boss clashed with Michael O’Leary when airline boss rejected installing Starlink technology on aircraftBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk has floated the idea of buying theh budget airline Ryanair, escalating his public spat with the Irish carrier’s boss, Michael O’Leary.The two outspoken businessmen have locked horns since last week, when O’Leary was asked whether he would follow Lufthansa and British Airways in installing Musk’s Starlink satellite internet technology on his fleet of 650 aircraft. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Elon Musk suggests he could buy Ryanair amid spat with boss Michael O’Leary

Mr O’Leary called the Tesla founder an idiot in a row over WiFi on the airline’s planes.

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31 h. ago Musk asks if he should buy Ryanair after demanding CEO Michael O’Leary is fired

The outspoken Ryanair boss called Elon Musk an ‘idiot’ who knows nothing about flights

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4 d. ago Elon Musk brands Ryanair boss an 'utter idiot' after he calls X a 'cesspit'

In the Godzilla vs King Kong of plain-speaking corporate leadership, X's Elon Musk and Ryanair's Michael O'Leary are calling each other idiots in a heated spat over inflight internet

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5 d. ago Elon Musk and Ryanair CEO erupt in war of words over airline's refusal to install Starlink on board

Elon Musk and Ryanair's Michael O'Leary traded insults after O'Leary rejected Starlink internet for his fleet. The airline boss cited concerns over fuel efficiency, drawing sharp words from Musk.

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4 w. ago Ryanair hit with huge fine in Italy over ‘abusive strategy’ with travel agencies

Ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, branded the ruling ‘legally unsound’

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