Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has called on England’s air traffic control CEO Martin Rolfe to step down or be replaced after the report into the NATS system collapse in Aug 2023, showed that NATS had no pre-planning, no back up plan, and no engineers on duty.
Michael O’Leary said: “Martin Rolfe will now deliver the comedy slot at the Airspace World 2024 Conference next Tues, where he will entertain all attendees with his views on “Crisis Management in ATM: Ensuring Business Continuity”.
“Sadly no one knows less about business continuity than Martin Rolfe. This could be one of the shortest presentations in conference history given that he specialises in creating crises rather than solving them. We look forward to hearing how Matin Rolfe’s engineers were sitting at home in their pyjamas during last year’s Aug bank holiday, one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, and then when NATS systems collapsed, they couldn’t even log into their own computers.”
He said Mr Rolfe also misled Parliament claiming just 575 flight delays, when the CAA report confirmed that over 700,000 passengers were affected.
