Ryanair may start to look for its planes closer to home. Of course, saying it was thinking about a switch from Boeing to Airbus would be far too simple for CEO Michael O’Leary … the genius behind “pay-to-pee” and many, many other stunts. O’Leary needs a bit more style, which is why his new intentions are being called “divorce.”
O’Leary believes that the management shakeup at Boeing has taken the company’s eye off the ball, which could be enough to make him switch teams. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ryanair is one of Boeing’s largest clients and has been working an order for as many as 200 planes … but the negotiations have been going on for more than a year. O’Leary says, “The difficulty has just been in getting someone in Boeing to make a decision. Boeing seem to have a degree of internal turmoil.”
But, O’Leary has pulled this game before, and according to WSJ’s The Source blog, he “is known to speak in the heat of the moment, use colorful language at press conferences to the amusement of journalists, and shoot from the hip.” Yeah, like the time he referred to the idiots in the “blogsphere …”
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