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28.11.11

Blocking Screenscrapers Proves Ryanair Doesn’t Need Edreams & Bravofly, But They Need Ryanair’s Fares

 
RYANAIR WILL CONTINUE TO PROTECT CONSUMERS BY FINDING WAYS TO BLOCK THE UNAUTHORISED SALE OF ITS SEATS

Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline today (28th Nov) vowed to continue to protect consumers again the unauthorised sale of its seats by screenscrapers, and will now modify its new reCAPTCHA internet security feature, after Edreams and Bravofly recommenced the unauthorised display and sale of Ryanair’s low fares, just hours after Ryanair, last Friday, welcomed their decision to cease scraping Ryanair.com. 

The reversal by Edreams and Bravofly proves that while Ryanair has not been adversely affected by the blocking on unauthorized travel sites/agents, these sites/agents clearly can’t survive without access to Ryanair’s low fares, which they then offer to customers at inflated prices or with hidden charges.
Ryanair will continue to find ways to block screenscrapers and urged all consumers, who want the lowest fares to/from Spain, to book their flights directly on the Ryanair.com website. By eliminating unauthorised screenscraping, Ryanair will continue to improve consumer access to, and the response times of, the Ryanair.com website for genuine consumers/passengers.

 

Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:

“Ryanair was delighted when Edreams and Bravofly stopped displaying our prices and seats last Friday. We expected them to look for a way around our new reCAPTCHA security measures since they clearly can’t operate their price comparisons without displaying Ryanair’s lowest fares.
Ryanair will continue to implement security measures to get rid of unauthorised screenscrapers and travel agents from our website, so that we can maximise consumer access and continue to improve the response times for ordinary passengers who want to book Europe’s lowest air fares without doing it throughcostly and expensive unauthorised screenscrapers such as Edreams and Bravofly.”
 

 


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