Ryanair wins court battle against screenscraper
Ryanair has won a battle with Spanish screenscraper Atrapalo in the Commercial Court of Barcelona.
The court decided that Ryanair is entitled under the Spanish Constitution to exclusively distribute its low fares on its own website.
The Spanish Court also ruled that Ryanair’s comparative advertisements complied with Spanish law.
The ads were previously censored by another Spanish court, but Ryanair appealed against the ruling.
The Court allowed Ryanair to publicly address screenscrapers in terms such as: “illegal sellers”, “parasites of the sector” and “dead wood”.
But it would not let Ryanair describe screenscrapers as “b*****ds”.
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said: “Websites such as Atrapalo have for too long been getting away with unauthorised reselling of Ryanair’s flights, with the addition of charges which consumers don’t pay when they book directly with Ryanair.”
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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