Ryanair's €100 Million CEO Is the Jürgen Klopp of Airlines
The way Michael O'Leary tells it, the more than €100 million ($113 million) bonus he unlocked this week for doubling Ryanair Holdings Plc's stock price should be uncontroversial; after all, top soccer players and managers are paid upward of €20 million a year.
But O'Leary, 64, is now in his fourth decade running the notoriously penny-pinching airline that he's fashioned into Europe's largest carrier by passenger volume. So he's mature enough to appreciate that two apparently contradictory views can hold true: that his executive compensation plan was flawed in its design, while overall he's done a good job and deserves commensurate reward.
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