article_snippet: Breaking new ground: Ryanair's directors have approved plans to start a transatlantic airline offering flights from as little as £10 but there has also been considerable fun at Ryanair's directors expense .
article_snippet: Mail columnist Andrew Pierce wrote: 'Ryanair to launch £10 flight to US.
article_snippet: Ryanair says Ryanair is studying plans to fly between about a dozen European and US cities on a transatlantic service that could start ‘in four to five years’.
article_snippet: Ryanair’s plan has echoes of 1970s cut-price pioneer Sir Freddie Laker whose cheap Skytrain flights to the USA transformed transatlantic travel for the masses, until Ryanair’s plan was effectively killed off by the established airlines, though Ryanair’s plan inspired Sir Richard Branson to launch Virgin Atlantic.
article_snippet: Ryanair’s has said Ryanair’s would fulfil Ryanair’s long-expressed promise of offering some bargain-basement transatlantic fares at £10, but other one-way tickets would be priced from £99 or more.