Aviation

Michael O’Leary says he’d ‘happily’ offer UK deportation flights to Rwanda

The Ryanair boss said he would ‘quote for the business’ from the UK government if it was during the winter schedule and it had spare aircraft

Michael O’Leary said it would be open to providing aircraft to carry out UK deportation flights to Rwanda. Picture: Getty

Michael O’Leary weighed into the UK’s controversial plan to deport refugees to Rwanda, saying he would “happily” do the flights if he had the available aircraft.

The Ryanair chief executive said: “If it was the winter schedule and we had spare aircraft sitting around and if the government were looking for additional deportation flights or any other flights, we would happily quote for the business.”

The UK government hasn’t approached Ryanair to carry out the ...