Ryanair wins German court victory in screen-scraping injunction Ryanair has claimed a German court victory against a tour company it has accused of screen-scraping its website against its wishes. The airline said that Hamburg Regional Court has awarded it an injunction against Vtours. Screen-scraping is when one company takes information from another's website by automatically filling in …
"consumers are being misled by these screen-scrapers into paying 'handling charges' for Ryanair’s flights when they can purchase the same flights with no handling charge on www.ryanair.com"....
Ha ha ha. No handling charges on Ryanair.com. Good one. Ryanair, the place where a £20 flight actually costs £80.
"It is simply unacceptable that consumers are being misled by these screen-scrapers into paying 'handling charges' for Ryanair’s flights when they can purchase the same flights with no handling charge on www.ryanair.com,"
RyanAir complaining about people having to pay unwarranted charges???
Looking at Martin Lewis’s Budget Airline FlightChecker, I see that Ryanair are currently not included. The statement implies there are technical difficulties preventing the inclusion of Ryanair’s flights, rather than any legal worries.
http://flightchecker.moneysavingexpert.com/
“Ryanair’s website is currently having difficulties so none of its flights are included in any results.”
Are Ryanair so confident they’ve brainwashed the ‘budget’ flier into thinking they’re always the cheapest that they feel they don’t need to be included in any price comparisons? If they are, they’re very brave.
you'll see Ryanair and the others giving out press releases telling you that they have authorized the scrappers and that they can now provide superior user experience, and the such.
What they will not tell you is that EasyJet and Ryanair will get paid for every single query that they get from the scrappers.
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