William Lee Adams

Will Elon Musk buy Europe's biggest budget airline?

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm William Lee Adams.

Good morning.

tech billionaire Elon Musk has picked another fight.

This time it's with Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, Europe's largest airline based on passenger numbers.

Mr. O'Leary said that Ryanair wouldn't be offering Mr. Musk's Starlink satellite services on the airline's planes.

Then he called Elon Musk an idiot.

Responding on his ex-platform, Mr. Musk floated the idea of buying Ryanair himself.

In the last few minutes, Mr. O'Leary has been speaking at a press conference in the Irish capital, Dublin.

So what's this row really about?

With me in the studio is the BBC's international business correspondent, Theo Leggett.

Theo, hi.

Hi.

So why doesn't the Ryanair boss want to use Starlink?

Mr. Musk has floated the idea of buying the airline.

How realistic is that threat?

And Theo, some really strong words exchanged there.

Theo, we will leave it there.

Thanks for joining us on Marketplace.