Ryanair targets - O’Leary still thinking big

RYANAIR chief executive Michael O’Leary is one of Ireland’s most successful businessmen and one of the very few truly successful airline bosses in the world today.

Today he tells us he expects Ryanair to make €800 million a year and carry 100m passengers within five years. Optimism in the face of growing recession.

He describes Brian Lenihan’s budget as a wasted opportunity and that the €10-a-flight levy it introduced will close Shannon.