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Donal MacNamee: Why Ryanair and Boeing are a match made in the heavens
The bonhomie between Michael O’Leary and Dave Calhoun as the Ryanair and Boeing chiefs popped the cork on their latest deal shows that for all their squabbles, they are aware of the symbiosis of their relationship
Ryanair and Boeing are friends again. For now, at least.
That was the clear message for shareholders and the wider world on Tuesday afternoon, as the two aviation firms popped the champagne corks on a deal for 300 new 737 Max 10 jets – worth, at list price, a nosebleed-inducing $40 billion (€36.5 billion).
It’s not long since Michael O’Leary and Dave Calhoun, the bosses of Ryanair and Boeing, were trading blows in the media ...
