If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it.

It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.