Ryanair main enforcement Michael O'Leary has said helium is "truly sorry" for describing rival airlines arsenic "high-fare rapists".
He had antecedently refused to apologise to a rape situation centre which criticised him for the comments.
O'Leary had made the remark earlier this period portion talking to journalists up of Ryanair's yearly gathering with shareholders.
Following the comments, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) wrote to him asking for an apology, successful a missive seen by the BBC.
O'Leary had primitively said that immoderate radical were "desperate to get to Ryanair's debased fares due to the fact that they can't spend to alert with the high-fare rapists astir Europe".
He subsequently defended his prime of words erstwhile asked by a newsman from the Press Association whether the connection was appropriate.
"British Airways, Lufthansa, and everybody else's precocious fares, I'll happily offend them connected a regular basis," helium had added.
Asked whether it would offend intersexual battle victims, helium said rape was "a unspeakable crime".
In a video posted connected Friday, O'Leary said that, implicit the past 10 days, helium had had "conversations with household and friends, some wrong and extracurricular Ryanair".
"I person travel to realise nevertheless that the connection that I utilized truthful carelessly has caused sizeable upset and offence to a wide fig of people, particularly to victims and survivors.
"I privation to apologise, sincerely and unreservedly, to those people, particularly to the survivors."
O'Leary described his prime of connection arsenic "careless", and said "it won't hap again".
"I volition effort to larn from this mistake, and bash amended successful future."
Following O'Leary's archetypal comments, the DRCC's main enforcement Rachel Morrogh had written to O'Leary accusing him of trying to get a header with his comments.
She said the DRCC had received calls from rape victims who were "upset and distressed due to the fact that of what you said".
She offered O'Leary grooming connected the interaction of intersexual unit and urged him to apologise.
"I can't ideate you would ever usage the word truthful flippantly again if you genuinely understood [what] it was similar to past rape," she wrote.
In response, O'Leary had said: "I americium rather wide that nary remarks of excavation could perchance trivialise the heinous transgression of rape."
He added that arsenic helium had not "trivialised the heinous transgression of rape" helium would "not beryllium issuing immoderate apology oregon accepting your connection of training".
It was not the archetypal clip O'Leary had offended radical portion talking astir his business.
In 2004, helium reportedly called the owners of Stansted Airport "a clump of overcharging rapists", external successful a enactment implicit airdrome charges.
He has besides antecedently called immoderate of his ain unit "lazy bastards" and erstwhile said to passengers looking for a refund "we don't privation to perceive your sob stories".
In June, helium said the hose would "reluctantly" halt charging parents to beryllium adjacent to children aft a watchdog probe was opened, but insisted its erstwhile argumentation complied with laws.
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