Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has suggested he could buy budget airline Ryanair, escalating a public war of words with the carrier’s outspoken chief executive, Michael O’Leary.
The clash began last week after O’Leary was asked whether Ryanair would follow airlines such as Lufthansa and British Airways in installing Musk’s Starlink satellite internet on its aircraft.
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The Ryanair boss dismissed the idea, arguing that fitting Starlink antennas would create “2% fuel drag” and add between $200m and $250m to the airline’s annual fuel bill.
Musk fired back on his X platform, describing O’Leary’s claims as “misinformed,” triggering a tit-for-tat exchange in which both men traded insults. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO went as far as saying O’Leary should be fired.
On Friday, Musk took the feud a step further, asking his followers on X whether he should buy Europe’s largest airline, valued at about €30bn. “Should I buy Ryan Air and put someone whose actual name is Ryan in charge?” he wrote, later following up with a poll asking whether he should “restore Ryan as their rightful ruler.”
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More than 75% of nearly 900,000 respondents voted in favour before the poll closed. Ryanair was co-founded in 1984 by Irish billionaire Tony Ryan, who died in 2007
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