August 30th - Michael O'Leary sets out Ryanair's plans
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
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🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Europe’s largest budget airline, Ryanair, has set out plans for its biggest-ever winter schedule from the UK. Yet at the same time the chief executive, Michael O’Leary, has been berating the current prime minister and warning of economic turmoil because of the hard Brexit. And what does he think about Ryanair flying from Heathrow?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Corder. |
| 0:07.7 | And today, well, I'm speaking to you from the Fendurch room. |
| 0:12.3 | That's a conference room in the Andaz Hotel at Liverpool Street Station. |
| 0:18.3 | And the reason we're at Liverpool Street Station is because this is where Michael O'Leary, |
| 0:24.0 | Chief Executive of Ryanair, has just been giving his first press conference of the winter, |
| 0:32.6 | as it appears to be. |
| 0:34.8 | We're looking ahead to that season and he has announced simultaneously |
| 0:41.5 | the biggest ever programme of flights from the UK for winter season and also the fact that he |
| 0:53.0 | thinks that the UK is in for a terrible recession and says that Brexit is largely responsible for it. |
| 1:01.0 | So how do those things compute? Well, I thought it would be interesting for you to hear direct from him. |
| 1:10.0 | So I spoke to him for a couple of minutes and he had already |
| 1:15.4 | given out the announcements and I'll run through what those are. 21 new routes across the UK. |
| 1:23.9 | Birmingham Airport actually doing pretty well which is I, I guess, where the vacuum was, |
| 1:29.9 | because with the collapse of Flybee, with the failure of Monarch, Birmingham really suffered |
| 1:36.5 | more than any other airport. Therefore, it is more prepared to do deals to get a big airline |
| 1:43.1 | like Ryanair to do more flying from it. |
| 1:45.3 | So you'll be able to go to Billund in Denmark. That's the Legoland Airport to Grenoble in France. |
| 1:53.4 | So very handy for the Valdezre and skiing opportunities there to lose. |
| 1:58.0 | Apart for anything else, a beautiful city, but also close to the Pyrenees. |
| 2:02.1 | You'd be able to go to from Birmingham to Santander in northern Spain. |
| 2:05.8 | Lovely place, actually. Venice, you don't need to me to tell you about that. |
| 2:10.6 | And, of course, the home of Abba, Stockholm. |
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