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Video: Interview With Ryanair Airline CEO Eddie Wilson at Skift Aviation Forum 🔒

  • Tom Lowry, Skift
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    Efficiency. That was Eddie Wilson’s mantra for Ryanair’s recovery versus a slew of competitors. This frank talk offers a rare glimpse inside the European airlines market throttled by the pandemic.
    — Tom Lowry
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    Eddie Wilson, CEO of Ryanair DAC, pulled no punches in his talk with Corporate Travel Editor Matthew Parsons during Skift Aviation Forum. Wilson was critical of government-supported flag carriers, scoffed at the notion that big network carriers would have better recoveries than his airline, and that airport testing was a panacea for airlines. For more on that interview, please read this story.

    Watch the video of discussion in its entirety, below.

     

    Photo Credit: Ryanair DAC CEO Eddie Wilson speaking during Skift Aviation Forum online on Nov. 19, 2020. Skift
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