May.18 — Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary says that support by German and French governments for their airline industries is “illegal” and will “distort the market.” He made the comments after Europe’s biggest low-cost carrier boosted its liquidity with a 600 million-pound ($726 million) loan backed by the U.K. government. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”
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Ryanair DAC (LON: RYA) is a European Low-cost airline founded in Ireland in 1984. It is headquartered in Swords, Dublin, with its primary operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted airports. It forms the largest part of the Ryanair Holdings family of airlines, and has Ryanair UK, Buzz, and Malta Air as sister airlines.