Spanish court backs screen scraper in Ryanair row
05.10.08
A Spanish court has backed an online travel agent against Ryanair's policy of only accepting flight bookings from its own website. On Friday a court in Madrid sided with Spanish online travel website Rumbo, who in August applied for an injunction to prevent the low-cost carrier from going ahead with its plans to cancel flight bookings made via third-party websites.
Madrid's Mercantile Court No 1 granted Rumbo's application and has banned Ryanair from cancelling tickets booked by passengers through the Spanish website. The ruling also asks Ryanair to remove its 'screenscraper' warning from its website and to refrain from making statements discrediting other websites.
The ruling is the first of several expected in the coming weeks in cases brought by on-line travel agents and consumer bodies in Spain against the airline. Rumbo's Managing Director Jose Rivera welcomed the news and said the measures ordered by the court effectively prevent Ryanair from going ahead with its ticket cancellation policy.
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