AVIATION CLUB members were treated to a superb discourse last week at the Institute of Directors by Willie Walsh, former chief executive of Aer Lingus, who described himself as the first unemployed speaker to preach at the club (actually not quite true ” Charles Gurassa was also ”between jobs”). What everyone wanted to know was where Walsh, credited with turning EI around over the last three years, was going next. He was not prepared to say, the former pilot, 25 years with the airline, only confirming that he and Messrs Seamus Kearney, chief operations officer and Brian Dunne, chief financial officer, who had also outstayed their welcome at Dublin, were unlikely to be getting into the same bed. Asked about his relationship with Ryanair boss Michael O”Leary, Walsh pointed out that the noisy fellow Irishman was now the owner of a Dublin taxi (and therefore able to flout the motoring laws in the city). ”What do you say to a taxi driver whose job is to drive and not jaw? Shut up and stop annoying me!”
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