O’Leary: “I ignore demographic trends because almost every demographic forecast has always been wrong. If the German population falls from 80 [million] to 50 [million] in the next 20 years, I’m sure 30 million Turks and Irish will flood into Germany to make up the numbers. We’re the most optimistic company around. We’ve ordered almost 400 new aircraft over the next eight years. But, we have to be continually conscious of how that growth will be derailed by stupid politicians taxing tourism, raising bogus barriers and reducing the competitiveness of European tourism.”