You can divide airlines into two camps: expensive and cheap. But I believe that we will only distinguish between long-haul and short-haul airlines in the future.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.