A statement on Ryanair’s X account on Tuesday evening said: “Perhaps Musk needs a break??<\/p>\n
“Ryanair is launching a Great Idiots seat sale especially for Elon and any other idiots on ‘X’.” <\/p>\n
It came after Musk floated the idea of buying Ryanair several times on X in the past week, suggesting that O’Leary should be sacked for rejecting the use of Starlink to provide wi-fi on Ryanair flights.<\/p>\n
EU-based airlines must be majority owned by people from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.<\/p>\n
The Irish airline also said O’Leary would hold a press conference in Dublin on Wednesday to “address” Musk’s latest move.<\/p>\n
Ryanair’s social media is known for its punchy posts, often mocking criticisms of the airline or weighing in on current events.<\/p>\n
Last week, after German airline Lufthansa announced it would install Starlink on its planes to provide all passengers with free wi-fi, O’Leary said Musk knew “zero” about flight aerodynamics.<\/p>\n
He told Irish radio station Newstalk that passengers would not want to pay a small charge for wi-fi on an hour-long flight, and that Starlink hardware would increase fuel costs because of drag.<\/p>\n
“We [would] have to put an aerial antenna on top of the aircraft. It would cost us about $200-250m a year, in other words about an extra dollar for every passenger we fly.<\/p>\n
“We can’t afford those costs. Passengers won’t pay for internet usage… so we’re not putting it on board.”<\/p>\n
O’Leary called Musk an “idiot”, with Musk using the same insult in response.<\/p>\n
Airlines have become increasingly important for Starlink, a network powered by thousands of low-earth orbit satellites.<\/p>\n
The technology is already being rolled out by airlines such as Qatar Airways and United Airlines.<\/p>\n
Both Musk and O’Leary have been known to court media attention with provocative public statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement on Ryanair’s X account on Tuesday evening said: “Perhaps Musk needs a break?? “Ryanair is launching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-381177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}