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ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, has been engaged in a public spat with Elon Musk over a tweet about the airline’s baggage policy. Musk claimed ryanair was deliberately making it difficult for passengers to understand baggage allowances, a claim O’Leary called “misinformed” in a post on his X platform, triggering a tit-for-tat exchange of insults, with each man calling the other an “idiot”.
Sorahan said the spat was “good fun” and had brought more people to the Ryanair website. O’Leary said last week that his quarrel with musk had increased bookings by between 2% and 3%, after the company pushed a “big idiot sale” campaign poking fun at the Tesla chief executive, estimated to be worth $240.4 billion by Forbes as of November 7,2023.
However, Sorahan added that in-flight wifi was still a long way away for Ryanair. “I have been looking at wifi for provided that I have been at Ryanair,” said the executive,who joined the airline in 2003. “There is still a fuel cost that we would have to absorb.”
There are concerns passengers may be less willing to pay for wifi on Ryanair’s short-haul flights, which typically only take between one and three hours.
The airline, which has grown to become the biggest in Europe, raised its forecasts for passenger numbers, profit growth and fares on Monday. It now expects to carry 216 million passengers by March 2027, and said average fares this year would rise by 7% to 8%, compared with previous guidance of 7%. Average fares rose 4% to €44 (£38) in its third quarter to the end of December.
Its profit after tax fell 22% to €115m in the third quarter, excluding a provision of €85m for a fine from the Italian competition authority which the company said it was appealing against. Though, it expects profit after tax between €2.13bn and €2.23bn for its full year.The airline said Boeing deliveries were progressing well compared with a year ago when the aircraft supplier struggled to deliver jets on time. it said the final four Max 8 models would be
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