And suddenly Michael O'Leary comes charging into the room.
It’s 1:15 p.m. on January 19.
Jeans, sneakers, trucker sweater and glasses stuck in his white mane, the general director of Ryanair does not have the look of a big boss.
Buongiorno, buenos dias, guten tag, hello, he greets with a big smile the assembly made up of Italians, Spaniards, Germans, French, Belgians gathered at the headquarters of the low cost airline.
An almost anonymous building ten minutes from Dublin airport.
Time to have a coffee on the fly and bite into a sandwich, and this ball of energy with machine gun flow launches the debates:
“We've had enough of being taken for Irish peasants who occupy two caravans next door of an airport.”
It is true that Ryanair is no longer an outsider: the group is by far the leading European air carrier in terms of passengers.
The king of low cost
Last year, it transported more than 180 million.
Twice as much as easyJet, the second low cost…
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