The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe.

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

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

Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can.

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.