Ryanair tries to delay operations chief's flight to easyJet
Share:
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair heads to court on Tuesday to try to prevent operations chief Peter Bellew from joining arch-rival easyJet until 2021. Europe's biggest budget airline said in July that the former Malaysia Airlines boss would step down at the end of the year. But after easyJet announced Bellew's appointment as its new chief operations officer a week later, Ryanair launched legal proceedings in Ireland's High Court.Ryanair argues that all its senior executives commit to non-compete..