BUZZ will, for all practical purposes, disappear at the end of the month (assuming that Ryanair completes its discussions with the OFT ” Office of Fair Trading ” in a satisfactory manner) 13 of its routes re-invented as Ryanair services. For legal reasons it will operate as a Ryanair sub-service until its aircraft go back to KLM, the airline explaining that is was far easier and quicker than trying to transfer the aircraft to the Irish register. Michael O”Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, told a press briefing last week that his eyes were sharply focussed on easyJet, now that, as he put it, he had disposed of BA, ”a bit like kicking a dead sheep.” O”Leary says he is on target for 18m passengers this year and 24m in 2004. His no-show ratio was said to be 5%, and 8% on the ”free seat sales”. On average Ryanair charges ”12 per sector for security and airport taxes, all of it non-refundable. This failure to return non-airline revenue represents an unearned hidden income that could be as high as ”10m this year and ”14.4m next. http://www.ryanair.com