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Airline banter alert: Aer Lingus and Ryanair are talking smack about each other on Twitter

FIGHT!

Updated 8.20pm

OH, WE DO love a bit of rivalry.

Someone alerted Aer Lingus to the fact that one of their aircraft is featured on the Ryanair website and they responded in the best possible way – by publicly shaming Ryanair on social media.

Epic #photobomb by EI-DVM on Ryanair's website! Even they know we're Best for Business 😀 pic.twitter.com/mYgDFbpg6P
— Aer Lingus (@AerLingus) January 15, 2015

Aer Lingus / Twitter

It didn’t take long before Ryanair noticed, however, and they responded with this.

Ryanair / Twitter Ryanair / Twitter / Twitter

Ah, the classic “you can’t stop talking about me, because you’re actually obsessed with me” approach.

Well-played, but we still think we’re giving this round to Aer Lingus.

Keep it up, though. It’s highly entertaining.

UPDATE: Things just got very real.

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#PeaceOut

UPDATE: Now CityJet is involved.

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STOP SINGING SONGS AND PICK A SIDE.

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Airline banter alert: Aer Lingus and Ryanair are talking smack about each other on Twitter

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