With Remarks about Muslim airline passengers triggered by the head of the Irish low cost carrier Ryanair, Michael O'leary, indignation. In an Interview with the British newspaper "The Times" urged O'leary on Saturday, to check Muslim men at the airport is strict - because "terrorists" are in the "General Muslim faith". A Deputy from the opposition Labour party accused the Ryanair boss, then to fuel racism.

In a communication from the Airline by Sunday, it is now called, O'leary have argued for "more effective security checks at airports, the waiting, less unnecessary queues for all of the passengers would result". So everything is a misunderstanding?

O'leary: "Who the bombers are?"

In the newspaper on Saturday is the following statement: "Who the bombers are? It is travelling alone, the Single will be men", had O'leary said in the Interview. "You can say anything, because that is considered racist, but it will generally be men of the Muslim faith."

In the company of their family are Muslim men, however, basically no danger, says the polarizing Statements of well-known companies boss. The risk that they would blow up along with their children in the air, "damn it is again Zero". "30 years ago" is out of danger, however, of Irish.

Suspicious or not? Profiling is controversial

The so-called Profiling for the O'leary utters, shall be classified people on the basis of stereotypes and external features as suspect and checked. So the Cologne police was last year, the accusation of "racist Profiling" suspended, after they stopped, several young Muslims and searches had - these were erroneously come under suspicion of terror, as they had walked to the end of the month of Ramadan, with long robes in the Cologne Central station and to the testimony "Allahu Akbar" called had. Ryanair to 12.73 EUR -0,20 (-1,51%) Xetra

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Ryanair boss for racism, A spokesman for the Central Council of Muslims in the UK, criticized

threw O'Leary Islamophobia before. It was a shame that the boss of an airline Islamophobia expressing so openly and shamelessly. According to the Organisation, Tell Mama, the registered Islamophobic incidents and helping Victims, could O'leary harm with such words his own business.

The Labour MP Khalid Mahmood said the "Times," with his Utterances, the Ryanair chief befeuere racism. In Germany this week have killed a "White" plurality of people, said Khalid with a view to the apparently racially motivated attack of Hanau, in which ten people were killed. "Should we take white people to be targeted, in order to check, whether it's fascists?", he asked.

O'leary had noticed in the past more often with controversial positions. He had proposed to make the use of the on-Board toilets on Ryanair flights, for a fee, or a particularly thick pass more money act request.

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In the third quarter to the end of December, Ryanair flew thanks to an unusually strong demand and higher ticket prices in the black. The bottom line is a profit of 88 million euros after a loss of 66 million a year earlier. In the travel weak winter half of the year, write the Airlines, usually in the red or scratch at best at the income threshold. Their profits they generate, especially in the peak tourist season in the summer.

While the number of passengers rose by six per cent to 35.9 million, jumped sales by 21 percent to 1.9 billion euros. Alone, the ticket prices rose by nine percent, the additional revenues for the preferred On-boarding and choice of seats increased by 28 percent.

thanks to the unexpectedly good performance, the Ryanair had raised guide at the beginning of January its profit forecast. In the end of March to the end of the financial year the profit is expected to reach since then, 950 million to 1.05 billion euros. Previously, O'leary had put 800 to 900 million euros, after the result was burgled in the previous year to EUR 885 million.

The flight ban on Boeing Mittelstreckenjet 737 Max, Europe's biggest throws back low-cost airline but its growth plans:The company divided with the threshold of an annual 200 million passengers a year one to two years later than previously planned, the Irish society in Dublin. Held in the financial year to the end of March 2024, this target will be reached in 2025 or 2026.

With the delivery of the first Boeing 737 Max is no longer attributed to Ryanair boss Michael O'leary, in the meantime, before September or October 2020. Originally, he wanted to have in the summer of 58 machines of the type in the air. Of the savings, which promises to be the Airline through the lower fuel consumption of the model, is likely to be due to the delayed deliveries in a year or something. For the current fiscal year, O'leary aims but more a billion profit.

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Date Of Update: 27 February 2020, 08:00