One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.

We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

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

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.