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
