O’Leary: Aer Lingus’s end is near

RYANAIR boss Michael O’Leary yesterday sensationally predicted that Aer Lingus will go out of business within the next two years if it doesn’t manage to curb costs and improve its management.

“That airline is going bust, within the next 18 months to two years, if its current rate of mismanagement and the present drain on costs continues,” he said.

Mr O’Leary was speaking as his company made its latest call on the Government to scrap the controversial €10 travel tax on flights out of Ireland and to lower high passenger charges at the country’s three Dublin Airport Authority (DAA)-operated airports of Dublin, Cork and Shannon.