| The Ryanair boss, Michael O’Leary, is planning to launch a transatlantic airline offering fares to the US from as little as $12 (£6.10), it emerged today. |
| In an interview with Flight International magazine, Mr O’Leary said he intended to fly to five or six US cities from Ryanair’s 23 European bases before the end of the decade. |
| “By mid-2009, we will be carrying 70 million passengers at 23 bases across Europe,” Mr O’Leary said in the interview. “It will be relatively straightforward for us to do a deal for 40 to 50 long-haul aircraft and connect these bases transatlantically.” |
| He told the magazine the new airline would be run entirely separately from Ryanair, with its own executives, board and a different name. |
| Mr O’Leary expects the services, to secondary airports such as Baltimore, Providence – in Rhode Island – and Macarthur, on New York’s Long Island, “to be full”. |
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