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Ryanair November Survey Exposes Vola & Edreams Overcharging
While
Vola and eDreams are spotlighted as the most egregious overcharges, a few other
OTA outliers also continue to screen scrape airlines’ websites and overcharge
unsuspecting customers for flights and ancillary products.
Ryanair
continues to campaign to protect consumers from the few remaining overcharging
OTAs, like Vola, eDreams, Booking.com, and FRU.pl, and again calls on EU Govts
and consumer authorities to compel all OTAs to offer consumers transparent
pricing, just like Ryanair’s “Approved OTA” partners now do.
Ryanair’s
Dara Brady said:
“Our
November survey again exposes the few remaining OTAs, like Vola and eDreams,
who continue to induce unsuspecting consumers with harmful overcharges of
between 25%-50% above Ryanair prices for bags, reserved seats, and priority
boarding.
We
continue to campaign to protect consumers from these few remaining overcharging
OTAs, and we again call on EU governments and consumer authorities to take
urgent action to outlaw these non-transparent OTA practices.”
Image
Credit: © Ryanair
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