Neal McMahon | Chief Operations Officer
Ryanair

Neal McMahon, Chief Operations Officer, Ryanair

Born in Ireland in 1980’s which was a period of depression, drudgery and hardship. This start set him up nicely for a career in Aviation with Ryanair.
Neal started his career in college creating an internet start-up company selling books online to students. Neal shut it down as students started selling other items on the platform and he decided that online selling was not going to take-off.
An accountant by profession he spends his days counting pilots & engineers and following up on ATC delays. He has been with Ryanair so long that he is now institutionalised and may not be fit for many other roles.
As a father of 3 small children, Neal likes to spend as much time in work as humanly possible.

Appearances:



WAF Day 1 @ 14:05

Panel: COO Panel: Leading the tech-enabled airline

  • Scaling operational resilience with a unified data strategy and tech capabilities
  • Transitioning from reactive to proactive operational planning – sharing where the real opportunity for optimisation lies
  • How can airlines work effectively with the wider ecosystem across air control, airports, ground handlers and regulators to solve shared challenges?
last published: 08/Jul/26 11:05 GMT

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