The questions Ryanair must address

Though there is a short-term impact on the bottom line, the bigger question is about the airline's reputation, writes Barry J Whyte

Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary

Ryanair has had its growing pains in the past, and Michael O'Leary knows that only too well.

In May,I spoke to chief O'Leary about those past growing pains and what he believed caused them. He was, it hardly needs saying, bullish.

Such pains, he said at the time, were always a result of “some other idiot ... out there splurging on capacity and there’s too much capacity growth in the system in Europe. ...