All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!

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

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.

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

The Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.