Musk asks if he can buy Ryanair after demanding CEO Michael O’Leary is fired | EUROtoday

Elon Musk has recommended he may purchase price range airline Ryanair after demanding CEO Michael O’Leary is fired in his newest on-line confrontation.

The world’s richest man claimed the Ryanair boss “needs to be fired” in a collection of posts on X replying to an official airline publish.

Musk requested the airline “How much would it cost to buy you?” as he relayed his fantasy about placing somebody referred to as Ryan in command of Ryanair.

“It is your destiny”, he insisted in a publish on Monday.

The Tesla boss later drew up a ballot the place he requested his 232.5 million followers whether or not he ought to “Buy Ryan Air and restore Ryan as their rightful ruler”. So far the ballot has obtained virtually 800,00 responses, 76.8 per cent responding that he ought to.

Fellow tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, finest identified for co-founding Reddit and marrying tennis champion Serena Williams, chimed in on the battle of the CEOs to confess “this timeline does get really entertaining at times”.

The spat between Musk and O’Leary escalated on Friday when the latter stated in an interview he would pay no consideration to what the Tesla CEO needed to say about putting in WiFi into the planes of his price range airline.

“I would pay no attention whatsoever to Elon Musk,” he stated on Newstalkan Irish radio station. “He’s an idiot. Very wealthy, but he’s still an idiot.”

Questions had been raised about the opportunity of putting in SpaceX’s Starlink web throughout the price range airline’s fleet, which O’Leary rapidly rejected.

“What Elon Musk knows about flights and drag would be zero,” he stated. “We have to put an aerial antenna on top of the aircraft. It would cost us about $200-250 million dollars a year, in other words an extra dollar for every passenger we fly.

“And the reality for us is we can’t afford those costs, passengers won’t pay for internet usage. If it’s free, they’ll use it, but they won’t pay €1 each to use the internet. So we’re not putting it on board.”

He then referred to as X a “cesspit”.

Musk responded to the video clip to say: “Ryanair CEO is an utter idiot. Fire him”.

The price range airline, identified for its tongue-in-cheek social media presence, has shared a variety of posts on X showing to goad Musk over the WiFi concern.

The official account replied to at least one publish, asking “what is a propaganda you’re not falling for?” with “Wi-Fi on planes” which led Musk to name O’Leary a “r*****ed t**t who needs to be fired”.

Ryanair Holdings PLC is at the moment value 35.07 billion on NASDAQ.

The Independent has contacted each X and Ryanair for remark.