"Musk said that interpretation was misinformed in a post on his X platform, prompting a tit-for-tat exchange of insults, with each calling the other an idiot and then the Tesla and SpaceX CEO saying O'Leary should be fired. On Friday, the world's richest person asked his followers on X whether he should buy Europe's biggest airline, which is now valued at 30bn (26bn), posting: Should I buy Ryan Air and put someone whose actual name is Ryan in charge?"
"Elon Musk has floated the idea of buying the budget airline Ryanair, escalating his public spat with the Irish carrier's boss, Michael O'Leary. The two outspoken businessmen have locked horns since last week, when O'Leary was asked whether he would follow Lufthansa and British Airways in installing Musk's Starlink satellite internet technology on his fleet of 650 aircraft. The Ryanair chief executive rejected the idea, saying that adding antennas to the jets would result in 2% fuel drag,"
Elon Musk proposed buying Ryanair after a public spat with CEO Michael O'Leary about installing Starlink satellite internet on Ryanair's 650 aircraft. O'Leary rejected the proposal, saying antennas would cause 2% fuel drag and add $200m–$250m annually to a $5bn kerosene bill. Musk called that interpretation misinformed and engaged in a tit-for-tat exchange of insults with O'Leary, including calls for O'Leary to be fired. Musk posted an X poll asking whether he should buy Ryanair and received more than three-quarters support among nearly 900,000 respondents. Ryanair's X account mocked Musk during an X outage. Musk previously bought Twitter in a $44bn deal and renamed it X.
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