Ryanair seeks to delay operations chief's flight to easyJet

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Ryanair is heading to court to try to prevent operations chief Peter Bellew from moving to arch-rival easyJet until 2021

On the opening day of the case, a lawyer representing Ryanair listed information he said the airline could not allow to be passed to its rival, including details of delays to the delivery of Boeing’s grounded 737 MAX aircraft as well the terms of deals Ryanair has signed with partners.

Hayden told the court that the initial contract Bellew signed in October 2017 did not include a non-compete clause, but said a bonus scheme accepted by Bellew at the time barred him from joining a competitor for 12 months after leaving Ryanair.Peter Bellew, former Chief Operating Officer of Ryanair, leaves the Four Courts in Dublin after the opening day of Ryanair's High Court Action to prevent him from joining its competitor Easyjet as COO in January, Dublin, Ireland December 3, 2019.

O’Leary read out parts of a reply Bellew had sent a few days later, describing the operations chief’s response the the criticism as “gobbledygook” and “waffle”.

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