Aer Lingus and Ryanair in public spat

Ryanair deputy chief executive Howard Millar riled Aer Lingus chief executive Christoph Mueller at an investor conference in London yesterday. Miller, who was representing his airline’s 30% stake in Aer Lingus, again asked whether the internal report, commissioned from Deloitte and McCann FitzGerald into why the airline’s leave-and-return scheme resulted in the need to settle a €30m tax bill, would be published. When Mueller answered that the report wouldn’t be made available, Millar accused Aer Lingus of a cover-up. He then asked for assurances that Aer Lingus wouldn’t inject any more money into the pension scheme, and for it to