Michael O’Leary is a real life shitposter who plays the press like a fiddle, and here he is doing it again.

We live in a time where anyone could do a quick check to see if a 737-8200 could reach Rwanda from the UK (ok, fuelling stops are possible but it seems unlikely that would be favoured), and confirm that, no, it cannot.

But “journalists” don’t apparently bother to actually investigate … anything.

So O’Leary gets his name in the media again for free. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-24/ryanair-ceo-says-he-d-happily-offer-rwanda-deportation-flights?embedded-checkout=true

Ryanair CEO Says He’d ‘Happily’ Offer Rwanda Deportation Flights

Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary weighed into the UK’s controversial plan to deport refugees to Rwanda, saying he would “happily” do the flights if he had the available aircraft.

^{Kate Duffy (Bloomberg)}