Will Elon Musk buy Europe's biggest budget airline? Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has picked another fight. This time it's with Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, Europe's largest airline based on passenger numbers.

Mr. O'Leary said that Ryanair wouldn't be offering Mr. Musk's Starlink satellite services

on the airline's planes. Then he called Elon Musk an idiot.

Responding on his ex-platform, Mr. Musk floated the idea of buying Ryanair himself.

In the last few minutes, Mr Mr O'Leary has been speaking

at a press conference in the Irish capital, Dublin. Look, there would clearly be a demand for Wi-Fi

on board our aircraft if it was free. You know, other airlines, mainly long-haul carriers like

Erlingus, like Lafanzas and others, are talking about installing Wi-Fi on board as a facility and giving it out for free.

But their average fares, particularly on long haul, are over a thousand euros.

Our average fares are 45 euros.

So what's this row really about?

With me in the studio is the BBC's international business correspondent Theo Leggett, Theo High.

Hi.

So why doesn't the Ryan Air Boss want to use Starlink?

Okay, so Michael O'Leary says he doesn't want to use Starlink, which is an internet system,

on the grounds that it would be too costly because it would require his planes to be fitted with external antennas,

which he says would cause aerodynamic

drag on the planes, increase his fuel bills to a level that would not be economically viable.

And do we have any numbers with that?

He says it would entail about a 2% increase in drag and would cost about a euro per passenger,

which would ultimately increase his fuel bill by about 250 million euros a year.

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