Comments on: Ryanair and who they are annoyed at

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:10:24 +0000

Cease and desist normally means they don’t want you to do it…….peeded off? They must have sent it out of love then. Threatening to take people to court normally happens when people are getting more upset.

Doug

By: WhichBudget

WhichBudget — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:05:47 +0000

Henrik,

The source can be found here:
http://www.ryanair.com/site/notices/docs/Screenscrape_EU_response.pdf

Doug,

They are not “peed off” just with screen scrapers. They have even sent a ‘cease and desist’ letter to us (WhichBudget.com), although we have never screen scraped Ryanair website. We have since managed to find an agreement with them, which is why we are not on the list.

Regards,
Martino Matijevic
WhichBudget

By: ukgimp

ukgimp — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:56:57 +0000

At least they are not victimising the consumer now and going after the perpetrators and not the poor old customer when they arrive at checkin.

By: Henrik Dahl

Henrik Dahl — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:52:23 +0000

Impressive list of travel sites, Doug

What is the source? Has Ryan Air published this list themselves?

By: Skyscanner Flight Search

Skyscanner Flight Search — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:24:22 +0000

Hi Doug,

We (Skyscanner) have just published a statement in response to this which you can read here: http://news.skyscanner.net/articles/2008/08/000550-skyscanner-and-ryanair-the-cease-and-desist-situation-clarified.html

The gist of our statement, is that, yes – Skyscanner were issued a cease and desist order, but this was several months ago, and Ryanair has since approved us to show their flights, seeing as we don’t act as middlemen, but send users directly to Ryanair’s website to book their flights.

Ryanair spokesman, Stephen McNamara, has also publicly stated that Skyscanner is okay to use, and said Ryanair does not have a problem with the site.

thanks

Skyscanner