Ryanair has welcomed a moral victory in three legal rulings against the airline’s long time OTA opponent, eDreams.
Three judgments were handed down at the Hamburg Regional Court in Germany, ruling that eDreams’ pricing policy misleads consumers.
The Court found that eDreams displayed airline seat and baggage prices without clearly disclosing its own additional fees.
Ryanair says the court also found that advertised savings through eDreams’ Prime service could not be achieved by consumers.
eDreams’ ‘price display for seat reservations without disclosing the additional fee is in any case misleading’ the court ruled.
Regarding checked baggage, the Court found eDreams had been ‘misleading about the service fee,’ the airline said.
Ryanair’s Dara Brady said: “These Hamburg Court decisions reinforce what Ryanair has long advocated – transparent pricing for consumers.”
“Despite Ryanair’s repeated objections, eDreams continues to scrape our fares and overcharge consumers.”
