Ryanair Appoints John Osborne

Ryanair Holdings PLC
15 November 2000



              RYANAIR APPOINTS JOHN OSBORNE TO
                 SENIOR MANAGEMENT POSITION

Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline today announced
the appointment of Mr John Osborne as Group Director of
Operations with responsibility for  the management and
development of all of Ryanair's flight operations, ground
operations and engineering functions.  Mr Osborne who has
enormous experience in the airline industry joins Ryanair
after a successful period as Chief Executive of Virgin
Express plc based in Brussels, and prior to that as Chief
Executive of GB Airways based in Gatwick.  Mr Osborne will
officially join Ryanair on the 1st January 2001.

Confirming details of this appointment today, Ryanair's Chief
Executive, Michael O'Leary said;

  'We are delighted that someone with John's ability and
  experience has agreed to join the senior management
  team in Ryanair.  This is at a time when we are
  expanding successfully, and will shortly add five more
  aircraft to our fleet, and next year add five or six
  new destinations to our present network of 45
  international routes.  It is a terrific development to
  be able to recruit someone of John's skill and talent
  in the operations arena.
  
  'John will be joining what I believe is one of the
  best management teams (myself obviously excluded) of
  any airline in Europe and in doing so will work with
  our 1,500 outstanding people to offer more and more
  competition to the high fare airlines around Europe as
  Ryanair continues to expand our route network, add new
  aircraft, and open up new bases.'
  
  'On behalf of all of us in Ryanair we welcome John
  aboard and wish him every success in this important
  and challenging position, and we all look forward to
  working with him.'