The Financial Times today, 16 March 2015, reports that the board of Ryanair has given approval for the airline to launch transatlantic flights.
This has been an oft repeated ambition of Ryanair, with Michael O’Leary once notoriously promising “beds and blowjobs” for premium passengers.
Now it seems that Ryanair wants to follow in the footsteps of Norwegian and Lufthana’s Eurowings and launch low cost long-haul flights.
But what are its plans exactly?
Update 19 March 2015: Ryanair has now confirmed, this time through an announcement to the stock exchange that it has no intention to launch a transatlantic airline.
Here’s what we know from the FT article:
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