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Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary continues his calls for Nats CEO Martin Rolfe to be sacked at a press conference in London. Mr O'Leary accuses the head of Britain's air traffic control operator of lying about the cause of an outage that led ‌to thousands of flight cancellations two weeks ago. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We are calling again today for urgent reform of failing UK Nats.
00:04What do we mean by urgent reform?
00:06Sack Martin Ruff.
00:08How long more, how many more screw-ups do we have to endure our passengers and our airlines?
00:14How many more times does he have to do his own, come up with his own internal reports,
00:18marking his own homework where nothing to see here go of, oh, it was another software ate my homework?
00:24This guy's been sitting there for 15 years getting paid $1.5 million a year,
00:30of which $800 million is an annual bonus despite delivering spectacular ATC collapses every year for the last four years.
00:37And the point we make repeatedly with Heidi Alexander and all the other visionary leaders you have here in the
00:43UK
00:43is no other European ATC system has collapsed over that period of time.
00:48Yes, the French don't show up to work.
00:49Yes, the Belgians will go on strike.
00:51But the actual computer systems don't fail.

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