Dublin: Elon Musk can’t buy Ryanair, but any investment would do better than his returns from X, the airline’s boss Michael O’Leary said on Wednesday, in the latest round of a public spat that O’Leary said was helping Ryanair’s bookings.
A social media war of words has flared in recent days after O’Leary ruled out using Musk’s Starlink internet service on Ryanair’s fleet of more than 600 jets. The outspoken airline boss called Musk an idiot, while the U.S. billionaire branded O’Leary an “insufferable accountant”.
Musk then suggested he might buy Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers and “put someone whose actual name is Ryan in charge”. He posted a poll on X and asked his followers to vote on the plan. Around three-quarters approved.
