{"id":350557,"date":"2026-01-17T17:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/utter-idiot-elon-musk-ryanair-ceo-insults-starlink-snub\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:07:21","slug":"utter-idiot-elon-musk-and-ryanair-ceo-trade-insults-after-airlines-starlink-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=350557","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Utter Idiot&#8221;: Elon Musk And Ryanair CEO Trade Insults After Airline&#8217;s Starlink Snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX founder <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58496\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\"  >Elon Musk<\/a><\/span> has criticized Ryanair and its CEO after the budget airline decided against installing the company&#8217;s <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"181838\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/starlink\/\"  >Starlink<\/a><\/span> satellite Wi-Fi across its fleet. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255010\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ryanair\/\"  >Ryanair<\/a><\/span> chief Michael O&#8217;Leary said the in-flight connectivity product was not financially viable due to weight and drag penalties incurred by its hardware, a point that SpaceX has since refuted with its own data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryanair ruled out implementing Starlink on its fleet earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,2845,6639,1368,3903,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-elon-musk","category-michael-oleary","category-ryanair","category-starlink","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350558,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350557\/revisions\/350558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}