Will Elon Musk buy Europe's biggest budget airline?
Will Elon Musk buy Europe's biggest budget airline?  
Podcast: Marketplace Morning Report
Published On: Wed Jan 21 2026
Description: From the BBC World Service: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has picked a fight with Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair; after O'Leary said Ryanair wouldn't be offering Musk's Starlink satellite services, Musk floated the idea of buying Ryanair himself. Plus, Lufthansa — one of the world’s largest airline groups — says that airspace closures due to war zones are forcing substantial rerouting of flights, with the ban on using Russian and Ukrainian airspace creating detours of one to two hours.