Elon Musk suggests he could buy Ryanair
Elon Musk has floated the idea of buying Ryanair as the tech billionaire’s spat with the boss of the budget airline escalates.
The Tesla founder created a poll on the social media platform X, which he owns, asking his followers if he should buy Ryanair and “restore Ryan as their rightful ruler”.
It comes days after he previously made the suggestion amid a feud with the Irish airline over the use of WiFi on flights.
Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary said in an interview with Irish radio station Newstalk that he would “pay no attention whatsoever” to Mr Musk, labelling him an “idiot” after being asked about Starlink being introduced on planes.
Starlink is a satellite internet system developed by Mr Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX.
Mr O’Leary said it would be too costly as the aerial antenna would drag on the aircraft and “passengers wouldn’t pay for internet usage”.
Mr Musk has since fired back at posts on Ryanair’s X account which mocked the tech mogul over the row.
While his own posts are widely taken to be provocative rather than serious bids, Mr Musk’s takeover of X, formerly Twitter, began with a surprise offer to buy it after he built up a stake.
Ryanair is listed on the Euronext index in Dublin and its shares have a market capitalisation of around 30.4 billion euro (£26.5 billion).
The low-cost airline is expecting to fly 207 million passengers over the current financial year.
Ryanair has been approached for comment.
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Oh! Good! One deluded egotistical Sociapath threatens to eats another. If only they could find a way to mutually destroy each other?
The bloke that likes to snap off nazi salutes for fun.
The bloke that runs a platform pushing hate porn and csam.
Anything to avoid talking about PedoGrok.
If this were to happen, I could see how there would be a Twitter to X style transition with flights to major European cities called ‘Tommy Tours’ where UTK flagsha**ers, 200 strong, pile into a city, smash it up and head back to the airport.
Great idea, for O’Leary to suggest Musk knows nothing about aircraft is really amusing, Musk has the most advanced rocket company in the world, is the richest in the world by far and has more business sense than Michael Kevin O’Leary has in his big toe! Musk could easily buy Ryanair, a man heading to be a trillionair!
So who’s right. Will enough people paying £15 for a two hour flight pay another few quid for Internet access to justify them paying the extra drag on fuel and Elon’s massive service charge? Remember this is the airline where people where six layers of clothing to avoid paying to put bags in the hold.