"I respect pilots. If you sit in the cockpit of a plane flying at 400 or 500 miles an hour, landing in 40 or 50 feet of visibility, you have untold respect for pilots. That doesn't mean that they don't do a very easy job, and that they are very well paid for doing what is a very easy job. We are in an era now where the computer does most of the flying. They're no longer there doing the flying themselves. But they are skilled professionals, they do a very skilled job... But are they hard-worked? No. Is 900 hours a year, or 18 hours a week on average [of flying] likely to generate fatigue? No. But you could not fail to respect and admire the professionalism of not just Ryanair's pilots but all commercial pilots."