'If we can annoy him again, so much the better': Ryanair's CEO poured fuel on the fire of his beef with Elon Musk

Ryanair's CEO isn't done bickering alongside the world's richest man.

Michael O'Leary, the prosperity airline's billionaire boss, stated on Monday that talks alongside Elon Musk's Starlink bankrupt downward since the SpaceX subsidiary idea the prosperity airline's passengers would pay for net access.

Speaking on an earnings call on Monday, O'Leary stated the transporter had "extensive discussions" alongside Starlink, which he stated was consenting to shield the expenses of installing WiFi terminals on Ryanair's airplanes.

However, the typically outspoken businessman afterward added: "Where the discussions bankrupt downward was they accept 60% of our passengers volition pay for liberated WiFi, to which we said, 'You have evidently never met a Ryanair fucking passenger in your life.'"

Ryanair's decision not to instal Starlink led to a extremely community fallout between Musk and O'Leary, and at smallest among the men isn't yet prepared to inter the hatchet.

"I have no aim of making up alongside him," O'Leary told Bloomberg TV following the call. "He thinks I'm an idiot. I cognize he's an idiot."

"If we can annoy him again, so much the better," O'Leary said.

Musk hasn't responded publically to O'Leary on Monday, and SpaceX did not immediately react to a petition for comment.

Ryanair is the world's third-largest transporter by passenger numbers, and the largest in Europe, attracting customers alongside fares as low as 15 euros ($17).

Its no-frills endeavor example relies on functioning a elevated quantity of flights and enticing customers alongside cheap fares, but charging for practically everything else.

Starlink's surge in fame alongside airlines

Starlink has soared in fame alongside airlines complete the former year, and has signed deals alongside nearly 50 carriers.

Its high-speed net assistance is normally offered liberated to passengers who lone have to sign up for the airline's loyalty program. However, O'Leary mold doubt on this concerning easyJet, the British prosperity transporter that announced a Starlink deal final Monday.

"It is not apparent to us whether they are going to provision it distant for free," O'Leary said. "I comprehend the briefing is that they are going to accusation passengers for it, to which I say, 'Well, fine fortune alongside that.'"

EasyJet did not immediately react to a petition for comment.

"I accept if it is free, several of our passengers volition use it," O'Leary told investors. "If it have to be paid for, there is no income example whatsoever."

O'Leary archetypal butted heads alongside Musk in January following making a akin comment. Musk afterward asserted that Ryanair volition endure customers to airlines that do have Starlink.

Over the next week, the two CEOs called all another idiots during Musk called for O'Leary to be fired and joked concerning purchasing the airline.

Ryanair used the promotion to initiate a "Big 'Idiot' Sale" alongside 100,000 tickets starting at £16.99, or concerning $23.

O'Leary stated on Monday that the spat generated up to $40 myriad of liberated promotion and bookings were up for two or three weeks afterward.