Ryanair pilot apologises and resigns

Another Ryanair pilot has posted an apology on an online forum after the airline initiated High Court proceedings against him in relation to an earlier, anonymous posting.

Dan Pepper, who identified himself when making the apology, had made earlier postings on the airline industry discussion website pprune.org using the username Vexed.

A pilot with Ryanair since 2005 and a captain since 2009, Mr Pepper is understood to have resigned from the airline in the wake of the apology. He could not be contacted today.

He is the fifth person against whom Ryanair has settled an action it brought since it began initiating proceedings in the High Court against people who had posted online comments against the airline which it considered defamatory. Another six to seven cases are understood to be pending.