Ryanair rails against snub by EU

Ryanair is annoyed that the European Commission doesn’t use the airline to get its staff from A to B, but maybe Michael O’Leary’s caustic insults and failure to acknowledge his company’s flaws is not the best way to court its custom, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

Commission officials do not regularly use Ryanair from Charleroi — called ‘Brussels South’ in that cheeky way Ryanair links the nearest metropolis to their airfield

THE American Express travel agent who told Michael O’Leary he could not fly Ryanair to attend an EU conference on innovation was taking on the wrong person. The offer to fly him on Aer Lingus — the company the European Commission blocked him from taking over five years ago — did not go down well either.