Ryanair has welcomed a German court ruling that screenscapers selling flights must disclose their extra fees and charges at the start of a booking.
The low cost airline claimed Unister – which sold Ryanair flights through websites like www.fluege.de and www.ab-in-den-urlaub.de without permission – were adding on a handling fee.
The Frankfurt court ruled that it must now disclose its €14.93 fee to all customers booking.
Ryanair called on German consumer agencies to apply this ruling against all other screenscrapers whooften hide these intermediary fees.
Spokesman Stephen McNamara said: "We welcome this Frankfurt Court ruling which confirms that screenscraping websites can no longer hide and must in future disclose their intermediary fees.
"Ryanair has campaigned against these screenscrapers for some time and we hope that this Court victory will bring about transparent pricing among screenscrapers in the interests of consumers."
Ryanair has previously won court cases against screenscrapers in Spain and launched high court action against screenscraper Budget Travel in February.
