Ryanair chief technology officer: ‘I find out about our projects in the papers’

Ryanair’s chief technology officer has been the unseen presence behind some of the biggest changes implemented by the budget airline in the past four years, but he’s admitted it’s a tough job as he contends with both the chief marketing officer and the ever-challenging chief exec, Michael O’Leary.
In his four years with the company, John Hurley has overhauled the Ryanair website (which now has over 2.5 million visitors a day), launched the MyRyanair app (now with over 35