{"id":1672,"date":"2017-02-06T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2017-02-06T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:34:35","slug":"no-such-thing-as-a-free-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/02\/06\/no-such-thing-as-a-free-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"No such thing as a free flight..?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have traveled Europe on a student budget are likely to have used Ryanair at some point in time. Despite some negative experiences, I must say I rely on Ryanair heavily when I am visiting continental Europe, and Michael O&#8217;Leary is probably the entrepreneur I admire the most. He has continually cut costs and expanded the network of the airline, and in this article purports to be aiming towards free flights in the future! Though it may just be a marketing ploy, it is interesting that he points out that 30% of Ryanair&#8217;s revenue is generated from ancillary sources. It would be incredible if we reach a point where getting on a plane from Dublin to Paris is free of charge, and the airline is still making a profit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/transport-and-tourism\/i-want-to-have-all-air-fares-on-ryanair-free-says-o-leary-1.2957880\">http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/transport-and-tourism\/i-want-to-have-all-air-fares-on-ryanair-free-says-o-leary-1.2957880<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have traveled Europe on a student budget are likely to have used Ryanair at some point in time. Despite some negative experiences, I must say I rely on Ryanair heavily when I am visiting continental Europe, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/02\/06\/no-such-thing-as-a-free-flight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}