The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary. Michael O'Leary More Quotes by Michael O'Leary More Quotes From Michael O'Leary We think passengers who forget to print their boarding passes should pay €60 for being so stupid. Michael O'Leary stupid pay thinking A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting. Michael O'Leary warrior talking lying I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite. Michael O'Leary disrespectful authority thinking The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe. Michael O'Leary suing air europe The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic. Michael O'Leary influential-person europe years All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit! Michael O'Leary leprechaun flight bullshit Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?" Michael O'Leary alliances aviation connections If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales. Michael O'Leary drink pilots fall The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs! Michael O'Leary environmental nuclear class We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them. Michael O'Leary environmental annoying want The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. Michael O'Leary great-wine philosopher wine 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. Michael O'Leary vision boards taken I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results. Michael O'Leary making-love gentleman two Get back to work you slacker or you're fired. Michael O'Leary slacker get-back back-to-work I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono. Michael O'Leary nobel-peace-prize screws should If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella. Michael O'Leary wine rose two We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. Michael O'Leary becoming people needs I'm probably just an obnoxious little bollocks. Who cares? Michael O'Leary who-cares care littles It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other. Michael O'Leary two Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace. Michael O'Leary spain couple beach