Michael O'leary (2007)
Michael O'leary
“Poor Little Rich Boy The journey from O’Leary’s home in Mullingar to Ryanair’s starkly functional offices at Dublin airport is less than sixty miles, but unless he left home at the crack of dawn and his office in the late evening, it could take more than two hours, such was the weight of the rush-hour traffic. It was frustrating wasting time sitting in traffic in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes, but O’Leary was reluctant to take the flashy option of acquiring a helicopter. And then he had a moment of inspiration. ‘I was sitting there in traffic one day. [The government] had deregulated the taxis and I saw that taxis could use the bus lane. There’s a bus lane and it would save me half an hour coming into the office in the morning. And I’m thinking, Why don’t I?’ So O’Leary paid €6,000 for his taxi licence and stuck a taxi plate on the back of his Mercedes when it was licensed by Westmeath County Council on 18 February 2003. For two weeks no one noticed, but then, on 2 March, the Sunday B...usiness Post broke the story.MoreLess
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