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We charge for checked-in bags not because we want your money, we just don't want your bloody checked-in bag!

— Michael O'Leary

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There will never be a shortage of people who get paid 150,000 bucks a year to work about 18 hours a week.

Our customer service consists of three things that people really want: a cheap flight, an on-time flight, and we promise not to lose your bags in between.

Human factors are always very important to us. I'm often asked at these kind of lectures, 'How do you motivate your people?' And I think fear works great.

I'm not a cloud bunny or an aerosexual. I don't like aeroplanes.

This is not the bloody potato famine. We're sending people abroad now for a couple of years. These kids will get good experience and they will come back!

Newsnight Interview (2011)

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