Hamburg Court Upholds Ryanair

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Ryanair Holdings PLC

28 August 2008

 



HAMBURG COURT UPHOLDS RYANAIR INJUNCTION AGAINST UNLAWFUL SCREENSCRAPING WEBSITE VTOURS.DE

Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline today (Thursday, 28th August 2008) welcomed this morning's decision of the Hamburg Court to uphold Ryanair's injunction against the unlawful activities of the screenscraper/ticket-tout website Vtours.de, which was previously selling Ryanair tickets, with inflated hidden mark-ups, to German consumers.

Vtours.de had appealed against Ryanair’s original injunction and this case was heard in the Hamburg Court last Thursday the 21st of August. In today’s judgement, the Hamburg Court has confirmed that Ryanair’s injunction remains in place, which will prevent the Vtours.de website illegally screenscraping Ryanair’s website and unlawfully selling Ryanair’s tickets to its customers with unauthorised hidden mark-ups.

Speaking today, Ryanair's Jim Callaghan said:

'We welcome this latest successful Hamburg Court decision against the Vtours.de screenscraper/ticket-tout website. Ryanair is continuing to cancel bookings made through this unauthorised ticket-tout website, and has called on the European Commission, as well as National Governments to take action to prevent this illegal and unlawful mis-selling to consumers. Sadly, we are still waiting for the European Commission to take any action to protect consumers, but we live in hope.'

Ends.                    Thursday, 28th August 2008

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please contact:                    Stephen McNamara          Pauline McAlester

                                          Ryanair Ltd                       Murray Consultants

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