Mr. Michael O'Leary:

We have made thousands. The biggest challenge we have with air traffic control every summer is that air traffic controllers either do not show up to work on a Saturday morning or are not rostered to show up to work.

Why do air traffic control restrictions across Europe always happen on Saturday? Our punctuality on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the busy summer season will run at 92% or 93% because almost all the air traffic controllers show up to work while on Saturdays and Sundays, particularly after a football match, air traffic control slots are all over the place. It is not about capacity; it is because people will not show up for work and they will not take a stick to the people who will not show up for work. We have pilots who are rostered five days and do five on and four off but they show up to work on Fridays and Saturdays. If we got the air traffic controllers to just do that but they are a tiny, incredibly cosseted and overpaid but powerful unionised group. Each has a national union that can shut down the skies over their country and significant parts of the EU.