{"id":986995,"date":"2026-01-22T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986995"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:29:51","slug":"ryanair-ceo-dismisses-elon-musks-idea-of-buying-the-airline-as-verbal-feud-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/ryanair-ceo-dismisses-elon-musks-idea-of-buying-the-airline-as-verbal-feud-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair CEO dismisses Elon Musk&#8217;s idea of buying the airline as verbal feud escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Ryanair on Wednesday dismissed Elon Musk&#8217;s idea of buying the budget airline and shrugged off insults from the billionaire, in a war of words that erupted over installing Starlink systems on aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>The spat between one of the world&#8217;s richest individuals and one of Europe&#8217;s most outspoken corporate bosses has been escalating for days. O&#8217;Leary said last week that the airline had ruled out putting Musk&#8217;s Starlink satellite Wi-Fi on Ryanair planes because the extra fuel drag from the system&#8217;s antennas would be too costly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Ryanair on Wednesday dismissed Elon Musk&#8217;s idea of buying the budget airline and shrugged off insults from the billionaire, in a war of words that erupted over installing Starlink systems on aircraft. The spat between one of the world&#8217;s richest individuals and one of Europe&#8217;s most outspoken corporate bosses has been escalating for days. O&#8217;Leary said last week that the airline had ruled out putting Musk&#8217;s Starlink satellite Wi-Fi on Ryanair planes because the extra fuel drag from the system&#8217;s antennas would be too costly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}