Well, this must be good…
Mirror: “Do you enjoy having kids?”
Michael O’leary: “No, I enjoy having sex.”
Mirror: “Do you like The Apprentice?”
MOL: “Yes, it’s good. We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. If you’re going to watch television, it’s better than Big Brother.”
Mirror: “But one of your cabin crew, Brian Dowling, was a contestant on Big Brother.”
MOL: “We milked it for all it was worth but what does it do for mankind? Nothing.”
Mirror: “You’ve got a reputation for only wearing jeans, a shirt and trainers.”
MOL: “It was intentional at first but I’m a bit of a (Jeremy) Clarkson now, an old b****** in faded denim. Our rule is wear whatever you like and if you’re a female and you wear a short skirt, so much the better. We don’t have a uniform code for pilots but it’s very strict for cabin crew.”
Mirror: “Could pilots turn up in jeans?”
MOL: “No problem, I don’t care.”
GH: “Ryanair has published calendars full of scantily clad cabin crew. Are looks important when you hire stewardesses?”
MOL: “It’s a combination of looks, personality and people who want to work hard. If you arrive here and you’re a great-looking girl but thick as a brick, you won’t get the job. Not all of our cabin crew are calendar models, they’re not all size eights or 10s. I’m sure that there are some size 16s, although I would hope not too many.”
Oh.
Ryanair Chief On Business Fortune And Family (Graham Hiscott, Daily Mirror)