Pilot suggests cost-cutting O’Leary take the axe to himself

IT’S about the only thing cost-cutting Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary hasn’t taken an axe to — himself.

But one helpful employee has made up for that uncharacteristic oversight and set out a plan that O’Leary himself has had to admit is very much in keeping with his company’s no-frills philosophy.

The brazen CEO, famed for proposing pay-for-use toilets and fat taxes for overweight passengers, got a taste of his own discount medicine when one of his pilots suggested his boss be ditched and his place taken by a cheaper replacement — a probationary flight attendant. Captain Morgan Fischer made the remarks in a letter to the Financial Times in response to O’Leary’s latest idea to replace co-pilots with flight attendants trained to land in an emergency.