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

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

I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

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.

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

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