22nd Jul 2026 19:40
(Alliance News) - Ryanair Holdings PLC on Wednesday said it has won an Irish High Court ruling rejecting an attempt by online travel agent eDreams Odigeo SA to challenge the jurisdiction of the Irish courts in a dispute over the resale of the carrier's flights.
The Dublin-based budget airline said the ruling allows its legal action against eDreams to proceed. Ryanair is seeking to stop the online travel agent from screen-scraping Ryanair.com and allegedly overcharging customers when reselling its flights.
The decision follows an earlier High Court order under which eDreams gave a permanent undertaking not to access Ryanair's Travel Agent Direct platform after the airline said it had discovered unauthorised use of the system to resell flights at inflated prices.
Ryanair said other approved online travel agent partners, including Booking.com, Lastminute and Kiwi, have direct access to its fares under agreements requiring full price transparency.
A Ryanair spokesperson said: "We welcome this High Court victory for Ryanair and our customers over eDreams. eDreams' attempt to avoid the Irish courts has failed, and our case to stop eDreams screen-scraping Ryanair.com and overcharging consumers will now proceed."
The airline added it will continue pursuing the case and said eDreams could obtain direct access to Ryanair fares if it agrees to the same transparency standards as its approved travel agent partners.
In response an eDreams spokesperson said: "Today's court decision in Ireland is strictly procedural and determines only where matters may be litigated; it expressly does not concern the merits of the case."
"We respectfully disagree and will appeal, as these matters were conclusively judged and resolved long ago, when Ryanair lost at every level up to the highest national courts in Europe. Rather than re-litigating settled cases, Ryanair should start complying with the binding orders it continues to blatantly breach. While Ryanair persistently tries to restrict consumer choice, we remain focused on delivering the widest multi-product, multi-provider offering for consumers on a single platform," the spokesperson added.
Shares in Ryanair were down 0.9% at USD58.26 in New York on Wednesday afternoon.
By Eva Castanedo, Alliance News senior economics reporter
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