Peter Bellew is to re-join Ryanair as chief operations officer, replacing Michael Hickey who leaves later this month following the ‘mess-up’ over pilot rosters which led to the cancellation of thousands of flights.
Bellew is currently CEO of Malaysia Airlines but previously worked with Ryanair until 2014 as director flight operations.
Ryanair said his mission would be to ensure that the pilot rostering failure will never be repeated.
Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary said: "We are pleased to welcome Peter back to Ryanair. Having worked previously in a senior role in our operations team, Peter has an unrivalled knowledge of our business model and how we maintain controlled growth, with industry leading punctuality, for the benefit of our customers and our people.
"Peter will lead a significant transformation in the way we reward and interact with our pilots, improve their working environment and career development over the coming years as we grow the fleet to some 600 aircraft and expand our traffic, at lower fares, to 200m customers a year."
