Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary in foul-mouthed rant at UK air traffic controllers' 'bulls**t'
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- čas přidán 27. 09. 2023
- The UK’s air traffic control (ATC) system is the worst in Europe, the boss of Ryanair has claimed.
Michael O’Leary made the comment as he launched a tirade calling for National Air Traffic Services (Nats) chief executive Martin Rolfe to be sacked.
The news comes just a day after Ryanair launched a flash sale with cheap flights to destinations like Spain, Italy and the UK from as little as €24.99.
According to Ryanair’s website, the discounted flights will be available at Dublin Airport, Kerry Airport, Knock Airport, Cork Airport and Shannon Airport.
The discounted flights from Dublin include destinations such as the UK, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Cyprus and Bulgaria.
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It’s not a foul mouthed rant, it’s how most people really talk ..
Well said.
And feel
It’s not the mouth of a normal chief executive
They want the airlines bankrupt to stop us flying - WEF are behind this !
@@knownpleasures
How do you know?
I wish Micheal O’Leary would stop holding back. You can never tell what his opinion is.
😂😂😂
Lmfao
I despise Ryan Air, but I despise the British establishment even more. This was brilliant!
O LEARY WHAT A BAD MOUTH TRASH TALK, 🥚
🤣🤣
Like him or loathe him, this press conference from the CEO of Europe’s busiest airline is absolutely epic.
👍🏻
I concur with your sentiment 100%♡
i mean i'm warming to him
This comment is written like an AI came up with it 😂
Busiest, with the worst pilots
He talks sense. Rewarding failure is a British disease which is holding us back as a nation.
Absolutely right
Tory austerity will never hire the staff they just want to cut cut cut and run the UK into the ground
Bang on.Rewarding hopeless idiots who are obsessed with "Diversity".
The thing is Britain doesn’t train people to be managers.
@@BrokenBritain4u are you seriously supporting this cheap skate sheister?
What a legend. No bullshit, no nonsense and says it like it is. An absolute bloody legend huge huge respect for this man
Lots of that was BS and Ryanair management is toxic thanks to this man
Absolutely, one you don't work for him. Ryanair staff are treated like shyoit.
I meet a pilot who was based in Malaga for him. He was stone mad about him
Yes, he's a legend...like President Trump
@@johnmc3862well then don’t work for them. You should know what you’re getting into when working for Ryanair, otherwise you’re a bit stupid aren’t ya?
Truth be told he’s right about our government’s incompetence 😂😅
Most governments are incompetent because they are NOT business people , basically they have NO qualifications.
We need more people like Michael, calls it for how he sees it.
and he pays his taxes in Ireland and doesn't dodge them like JP and then hoodwink the peasants with "charity" !
The revenue tired to screw a million out of JP a few years back and so he moved. But that little fact is of course left out of the story. They did the same to several high profile people in Ireland. When my dad inherited the family farm they sent him a tax bill for 20,000 pounds in the early 80's. Revenue are scam artists and I'd only ever deal with them via a solicitor or an accountant.
At least JP actually does give money to charity and sporting organisations instead of pretending he does like Sean Quinn did.
And then here is Denis....
Jp paid my daughters trinity scholarship award so 👏 to him. Not just her but literally hundreds yearly.
@@jb6368 he paid the Irish state's tax money to her so!
Please get this man in Irish Government, says it like it is and seems like he would give the system the kick up the arse it needs
he's to competent to be in the Dail
don't think he'd waste his time, o'leary can see Irish politics is way too dominated by neo-liberals and champagne socialists so not worth the effort
You believe him why? Lots of what he says is just made up
You could kick politician's arses all day and they wouldn't change a thing
He's a ruthless businessman. Someone who would care less about people even more than politicians do.
I was always told, a man who accentuates his speech with foul words, is a man who speaks the truth.
I like that.......
Tha'ts fuckin sarcasm, surely.
@@maxeddwno i would agree . You aren’t holding back
@@Sineadmcdhaha 😁
Spot on
Spot on. Love Michael calling out wasters and Bullshiters
He is literally bullshitting right here
Can Michael please run this country.
Maybe not great CEO but no I wouldn't like him running this country
This man brought down the snobbery of aer lingus. I’m a fan
The luvvies in the Irish media hated Ryanair for years...they hated the fact that the Great Unwashed were able to fly ....
Exactly Thomas, but all these woke eejits wouldn't know anything about those days@@thomasbroderick767
Ryan Air squeezes every single penny out of you. He must squeak as he walks.
@@Matt-yq4zrStill the cheapest airline in Europe
@@irishpride9867Yeah, cheap and tacky.
We learned in an Economics lesson about Michael O’Leary he’s a world class business man and doesn’t suffer fools gladly, the media portray him negatively sometimes which is undeserved as he’s actually a gent who just doesn’t have time for bullshit or bureaucratic nonsense. Straight Shooter who calls it as he sees it
It other words he's a rude SOB!
Because the media is full of fools, except for the higher-ups such as the jewish editors and bosses that tell the fools what to think and say
@@conormccormack7841 anti semitism will not be tolerated, you had a point till you made it xenophobic
@Therealprinceofcobh You mean antisatanic. You have to be of Adam's children Seth or Shem to be semetic. The others are of their father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and did not abode in truth. That's what Jesus Christ said about them. Do you think you know more than my saviour?
@@Therealprinceofcobh some reason people's names aren't being stamped. Can you see two or three replies from me?
This man is the only one to stand up to the bullshit 👏👏👏
Hilarious stuff. Great to see Michael calling out the bullshitters!
You’re obviously also drawn in by his made up stories. He’s just trying to distract from the cancellations Ryanair have had to make thanks to a shortage of planes
@@mrknex007 If that was the case, which is not exactly correct, he would have just kept his head down and not held a press conference. And if he was asked about lack of new planes, there's every chance he'd have given a straight answer.
@@johnmcdonnell81I work there it is exactly correct. He timed this just before the cancellations. He is trying to scare people off booking easyJet from Gatwick so they book Ryanair from Stansted instead.
he's the gobshite of gobshites in my opinion, the Ryans' attack dog, "you can take the man out of the bog but you can't take the bog out of the man"
As an American living in Ireland for some time, Michael has been a hero of mine from shortly after arrival. Its surprising that more Irish folks don’t hold him in high regard.
RTE tell them not to like him. He's also a self-made man, unlike all the scum high-up in government sectors, judiciary, media,HSE, etc. They make big money and get prestige by selling their souls
We absolutely do
He is In very high regard. But I regulated,media hates him because he call them out, whilst they draw down their gold played salaries and pensions all on the tax payers
We love him
Nobody likes him Ireland
That's his best press conference in a while haha.
I flew to Ireland for £14. AND £3 return with Ryan air in 2007 I love this man he is revolutionary in the airline business.
Unbelievable how they can they run the plane , fuel , pilots , the airport fees ,, maintain the plane properly at those prices. Cab fares are more
@@Handlethetruth666 I, know I thought the same and have to this day but it is the truth it did happen.
I still,believe to this day they are subsidised by the Irish government
@@robertanderson-yx8mo that's an amazing price, how much did it cost for your suitcase though, £80 😆
@@andrewdavy9921can do maths. That's still half the price of another airline and 1/10 the price of before Ryanair forced the whole industry to compete. If people want to bring their hairdryers let them pay.
What he stated about salaries going up whilst suffering such losses is golden. Well done Michael O'Leary.
He halved the losses, so doubled his pay!
Makes sense to me 😂
the fool should shut his gob because they might just double or triple their fees for the cheapo airlines clogging the skies to get back into profitability and to excise some revenge!
Legend! The world needs more like him.
I'd be pissed off too if I had paid £100m for a service and was asked to halt business because of ineptitude.
At age 19 in 1980 I bought my first return ticket to Ireland. Aer Lingus APEX fare (advanced purchase excursion). You booked it three months in advance and it was a use it or lose it deal. It was £73 - a very high percentage of my take home monthly income at the time. I'd feel annoyed with myself if I couldn't fly for less now - 43 years later. Imagine how much Aer Lingus (and the rest) would be charging now if Ryanair hadn't come along? They needn't bother trying to suggest they offer a more standard (as opposed to no frills low cost) service either. They all charge for bags, booking seats, using credit cards, service fees (??), non standard hold items, in flight catering etc.
Wow! I remember those APEX fares, did you not have to be away for a Saturday night as part of the booking conditions?
Yeah, we definitely need more of this attitude. It will hopefully wake people up from the nonsense they feed us. I love it.
As always honest and correct, Michael is the best thing that's happened to aviation industry 🎉
None of this is correct. I work in the industry, and all he is trying to do is scare people away from booking easyJet from Gatwick in the hopes they book Ryanair from Stansted. It’s 100% about business. NATS also run the tower at Stansted but I see he didn’t mention that once. O’Leary is very clever at spinning the media into a massive advertising machine for his company and unfortunately it looks like you’ve been drawn in
Lolz. I flew with those clowns twice and never ever will again. Biggest joke in the air
Think you'll find that was the Wright brothers this man is a clown and his airline is by far the worst I've had the misfortune to fly on never again
As a person with a business back ground you have to admire his straight no nonsense talk , those who seek to protect the status quo obviously don't like him-this includes inefficient organisations/ management, unions that don't like change. Private enterprise is very different to the inefficient state run bodies, hiring a bunch of people from state run companies smacks of cronyism. I will say the one negative about him is he drives shareholder value a little too much at times to the expense of employees.
Spot on as usual from O leary
He's a proper CEO. His brilliance has led to Irish people enjoying cheap travel. Yes, there's no frills but I'd rather a half price flight without the "free tea". Well done Michael. How I wish you could sort out the inefficiency that plagues our hospitals and civil service. NO BS, straight to the point, how refreshing. Long live the King. (ps and i still say that after being delayed 2 hours 30mins in Luton on Sunday night)
Not that cheap anymore. The seat costs more than the flight!
@@johnmc3862 but you can chose random seat allocation for no extra ,if you are a tight arxe.
It's not half price. A flight to London wasn't from about 1000 Irish pounds (1720 euros) to about 20 euros. It's just that he made the whole industry cheaper.
@@jimmyryan5880 I am 70 y and my memory is of a flight to London from Dublin costing around 200 punts one way back around the early 80 s with Aer Lingus .A huge sum in those days .My weekly wage in London in 1984 was £60 as a barman in a Hotel living in .
@@anthonydowling3356my Dad said the same.. nearly a months wages to fly to London.. would be like paying €2000+ nowadays
He has won me over many moons ago. I love his no nonsense approach.
What is also bullsh**t is how ryanair will not respect EU law around flight cancellation duty of care compensation
I'd love see him running the country! He's brilliant straightforward gets on with it!!
He's a businessman, nothing to do with running a country.
@@johnmc3862 we all know he's a businessman my point is he would make a great party leader/ man to lead our country! He's successful person!
@@johnmc3862like Donald Trump?
He is a legend and whether you like it or not he has transformed air transportation for everyone across the globe with the way he proved how a low cost model could be profitable and competitive.
Yeah and their treat their staff like muck. Don't be fooled by this man.
Changed it For the worse, his barrel has no bottom.
He is full of shit . And a horrible individual with nothing but self interest.
You get a cheap ticket at a cost . He does very well at pulling the wool over your eyes so you forget the cost you have to incur to support ‘Cheap’ tickets .
His type of business model is what’s to blame for short staffing all over aviation.
Yeah clap away 🤨
I think you will find that Freddie Laker , Richard Branson and Easy Jet has that accolade. And with actual customer care. That airline was caught deliberately keeping passenger groups apart to get people to pay to seat together. Thankfully I have and never will grace that piece of .... with my custom.
Check the fact on this man
@@johnmc3862 well said, he is a first rate bull sh***er
Just proves it’s who you know not what you know 🙈
Fair play to him. They don't like him providing affordable flights for the herd. They like 15 minute city's and all the rest.
Exactly. Where only the rich can travel and eat meat.
I live in a 15 minute city, it's great. Everything I need is close by.
@@Seeker7172 I live in a city and everything I need is close by but what I really love is the freedom to go where I want no matter how long it takes even if its for nothing but to enjoy the freedom. And I don't like the idea of other people restricting that freedom. And what makes it worse is the people with these ideas still fly around in private jets.
@@fergie1910 Not sure I understand. 15 minute city doesn't mean you don't have the freedom to go anywhere, it just means you have all the amenities you need within a 15-minute walk. This is really common in Europe, where I live, but in America - a nation which embraced the car industry, you cannot walk anywhere in many cities.
Well done mick,, they are a total load of bolloxis
Well said Michael no argument from me, I agree with your evidence based assessment. Tell us what you really think....
What should we do upon landing boss?... "Play a fucking trumpet sound for all I care"..
How to say a lot and simultaneously absolutely nothing of any substance.
It was substance from start to finish, but you need ears to hear it with.
He's only pissed off as he is not getting his own way. You try working for him!!!!!
So Michael is an equal opportunities hatred of airport authorities CEO - it's not just the Dublin lads he has in his sights. I hope he never retires and let's be fair he'd go nuts if he was forced to go on a permanent holiday!!!
I worked with a guy with similar work ethic and abhorrence for slacking and incompetence as MOL. On his honeymoon he cut the time short and returned to his job because he couldn't stand the idea of 2 weeks idleness. Luckily his wife had the same idea about work and money and they ended up with a chain of groceries in my home town.
The world needs more leaders like this man. ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT
He is the sort of entrepreneur that Europe needs more of.
Savage! Great to see the Board and CEO being named and taken to task.
A man after my own heart.
easy now he might eat it with slave salt from ben bulben ...
A heart of ice.
Imagine how quick he could turn this country around if he got a chance.
He would run it into the ground, pander to the rich and bleed it dry.
Deluded. 😂
@@barrymcguire4810There is a sort of Trump like cult around Michael O’ Leary
No BS!
Straight talking Man!
Unusual these days!
That’s for calling out the incompetence of these people with jobs for life.
You call that foul mouthed? 🤣🤣🤣
He is a Real Irish Man.
His family roots are actually English
@@JRDN1 Well the English are actually Germans
With a name like O Leary 😂😂
@@JRDN1 bollocks. O'Leary the English man?
@@jacquelinegosnell5340Cos there's no second generation Irish people in England or second English in Ireland at all, are there?
This man is a LEGEND. We need more like him.
Now that is a CEO.
this is the 100% depiction of what every other press conference should be like ❤❤😂
Fair play Michael call them out..
Absolute legend 😂straight to the point no messing about cut to the bone, huge respect.
man spits it out....cannot argue with that....
Absolutely spot on an correct and a sight-glass into why the UK has declined so much 😄
His body movements and facial expressions are top notch comedy 😅
Michael should run the country,, knock some sense into the fools that’s running it at the minute
I have been saying that for Years! 🎉🎉💥💥🎉🎉💥💥🎉🎉💥💥🎉🎉
TDs salary is a pittance compared to what capable folk command in the private sector.
The great unwashed struggle to fathom that but such is life.
Really? He does not care about Ryanair staff nor passengers. He calls Ryanair passengers "The Great Unwashed". Just try and imagine how he will treat the poor, the homeless and the average Irish worker. Think it through..................
@@malahammer when did he refer to passengers as the great unwashed?
@@peakseamus at the start of his career with Ryanair.
You can’t train new safe controllers overnight. They were already low pre Covid and stepped up recruitment, incl sending some to Spain which didn’t work out apparently so qualification delayed. The probationary ones couldn’t continue training during Covid and had to backtrack when things picked up, and more experienced controllers than might have been expected retired early. I don’t want my ATC to be on a 60 hour week.
O,Leary calls out the wasters.
This guy is brilliant. We need more like him.
Surprising that there aren't any people who were air traffic controllers on the board who would surely understand the industry better than eon and ex military executives
Good question. I'm an ex NATS air traffic controller. 5 % Ownership of NATS by staff, but virtually no staff voice or representation. I attended an AGM after jumping through many Monty python style hoops years ago. Fun but farce at same time.
A relic of the 1980s with a few expensive rebrandings. Front line staff great...otherwise a flawed set up and culture at the top..
Brilliant it’s important that someone is telling it how it really is. 👏👏👏👏👏 Michael O’Leary
Like his own pilots, the hours air traffic controllers can work are limited by law. It is not as simple as just getting the other 70% in to cover.
Until recently the ATC at Gatwick Airport was provided by DFS, a German air traffic control company. Gatwick Airport chose to terminate their contract early and asked NATS to return. The current staffing issues ant Gatwick are the fault of DFS, not NATS. The latter is now trying to increase numbers, not a quick process in ATC, but in the process reaping the rewards of the gutter mouth above for the failings of DFS.
Fantastic news... absaloutly brilliant
He's absolutely right
This is how normal people speak.
Imagine Rishi coming on tele’ and slagging off his own ministers like this. Just priceless, Michael👍
GIve this man a promotion!
Pity he's not able to clear out those muppets in Leinster house- he'd run this country single-handedly and save us a fortune while improving public services 10000% !
That's because he thinks for himself and doesn't get orders from billionaires in Davos
He'd be an Irish Trump, the establishment would despise him.
The thing is, if he became Leader of Ireland he would have to sack ALL the civil service and make them reapply for their jobs on new terms. Private pensions, sacked if not performing etc. All ex TD's would need their pensions "shaved" ... in solidarity 😀. Better still, just give them all the state pension. This crap with a top heavy ineffective civil service and then a private sector with many people having feic all rights to sick leave etc needs to be equalised. A report just out said as much, the most attractive jobs are semi state and civil service -> because you don't have to work
I recall a chat I had with a trainer in the State training agency back in 2009. He found that the biggest drawback in the job was the waste and the number of his colleagues who did the bare minimum, sometimes nothing, and were not sanctioned for this non performance. In stark contrast I worked my entire life in non-unionised private companies which had very strict KPI's and accountability and pay for performance. This system only partly worked in that favourites and cronies could game the system and pull ahead of genuine hard workers. Also taking credit for others work was rife in those places. Responsible trade unions are needed in the workplace but also responsible management to stop corruption and cronyism.@@DodgyTodger
The man's a legend...
Michael O’Leary never fails to put a smile on my face 😂
Ryanair landing at Heathrow???
Well done. Michael.
The statistics he is revealing deserve the language he's using in my opinion.
as much as i despise and never fly with fkn ryainair, i think this fella should be put in charge of our budget, rte , childrens hospital and the whole lot.
He would have staff flying in and out of the place at no man's rate. Micheal is only interested in the share holder. Good leader
If you don’t like it don’t operate and airline in the uk.
Well said Michael, there’s you trying to run a business that is so competitive and so difficult and there they are bullshitting with their excuses. Well done Michael again
Michael never change 👏🏻
We live in a world of lies the truth is brutal.
If Ryanair had any decency they would "F - OFF" and shut up shop. Has a frequent flyer i would never use Ryanair again no matter what extra cost was involved
Great management style. That’s we need more of.
He's absolutely right.
NATS charged about £1 70 per nm for their service around 30 years ago.I wonder how much it is now?
1.3m is not a bad wage for being awful at your job eh.
If only this guys was put in charge of public sector finances 👍
I love it - no shit and says it as it is - we need people like this in our decrepit political system let alone business
No corporate cant or jargon with MOL. I despise the modern disease of corporate newspeak and lies that pass for communication with most companies.
Love it, he needs to be the PM! Workers here are useless……
How did I miss this absolute gem of a clip when it came out? Yes, he said it beautifully.
Mick dropping facts 😮
Facts?? Based on your vast knowledge of uk ATC I assume? Speak to his own pilots and cabin crew and see what they think of this world class businessman!
@@jonwhite4939 I will assume you gathered your vast knowledge from speaking to all these Ryanair cabin crew and pilots 🫢
He’s a bit of Bollix but God you have to love him. More of him is needed.
Sometimes a bollix is needed to get things done and weed out inefficiencies and downright corruption, price fixing and cronyism in the modern workplace, not to mention the politics, back-biting and bitterness lazy mediocre people have for people who actually do the work. People might hate MOL, they may even fear him but things will get done and moved mostly on time and in budget.
I recall a recent conversation I had where a lady aspired to be a hostess with the National Flag Carrier, Aer Lingus, She was turned down because of poor marks in Irish. This is the way State Sponsored companies think, turning down good candidates because of lack of knowledge of a near dead language which would be totally irrelevant to their job. Ryanair do not engage in such nonsense, hopefully they pay their staff while on the ground during turnarounds as I hear some low-cost US airlines only start the pay clock when actually flying.
Borthwick also comes from a regulated electricity company: "Previously he held a number of senior roles at SSE plc, one of the largest energy companies in the UK, latterly being Group Finance Director for their Networks and Enterprise businesses, also having responsibility for the group’s central reporting, tax and treasury functions."
Thats how to speak with assholes. Well done Michael!
You got to love this guy
Brilliantly honest, we need more of it all over
Go on kid..they don't like it up em..frigging incompetents
Probably the only person who could sort the NHS out. If Michael was hired it would have NHS higher management and leadership knees wobbling
Good to listen to someone who knows his profession and the abilities or lack of them of others within the profession at said level.
Love this man 🍀
The worst airline ever..8months after they cancelled my flight I'm still waiting on refund..how many have this happened too
From the man who issues fines to his own customers.
Yes he can talk