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01st Feb 2017

Ryanair’s long term travel plan is all our dreams come true

Can you imagine?!

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Free flights.

Michael O’Leary is an entrepreneur that has never shied away from challenging the established order or how things are traditionally done, and in an interview with the German business newspaper Handelsblatt, he revealed plans about how he sees the airline earning its money in the future.

O’Leary thinks that free airline tickets could become a reality because any offset in revenue would be cushioned by consumers spending more money on ancillary revenues like in-flight snacks and Wi-Fi.

If this means that we’ve a free plane ticket on the condition that we go hungry while being unable to surf the web, so be it. We would be absolutely delighted.

O’Leary explained his long-term vision:

“One day I want to have all the air fares on Ryanair being free”

“Ancillary revenues already make up 30 per cent of our revenues. We might never get there, but at least it’s the objective”.

O’Leary also had some strong opinions about Theresa May, Brexit Donald Trump.

Regarding the British Prime Minister and her handling of Brexit, he said:

“Britain wants to be a global trading nation with free trade? So why don’t you have free trade with the biggest trading bloc of the world, Europe? It’s mad”.

The Corkman also stated that he no longer has plans to open a transatlantic route and that President Trump’s recent policies are doomed to fail.

“Isolationism has never yet succeeded anywhere in the world. If it did, North Korea would be the world’s greatest economy”.