Ryanair today (Thurs, 9 Jan) released its January OTA Survey, which shows three remaining OTAs continue to overcharge consumers – eDreams, Vola, and Booking.com – by 125% over Ryanair prices. eDreams imposed the biggest mark-up, overcharging consumers more than double the price (€27.49) for a 10kg bag that costs just €11.99 on Ryanair.com. Vola also overcharged consumers (€16.50) for a reserved seat that cost just €8.00 on Ryanair’s website, while Booking.com was overcharging consumers (from 7% to 27%) for air fares that are far cheaper when booked directly on each airline’s website as set out above.

Ryanair continues to campaign to protect consumers from these few remaining overcharging OTAs, like eDreams, Vola and Booking.com, and calls on EU Govts and Consumer Authorities to demand that these outlier OTAs, offer consumers transparent pricing, just like Ryanair’s “Approved OTA” partners now do.

Ryanair’s Dara Brady said:

“Our January survey continues to show that some OTAs, like eDreams, Vola, and Booking.com, continue to overcharge unsuspecting consumers with harmful mark-ups of over 125% over Ryanair prices, or inflated prices over and above the air fares that are much cheaper when booked directly on each operating airline’s website, as shown above.

Ryanair continues to campaign to protect consumers from these OTA overcharges and we call on EU Govts and Consumer Authorities to take urgent action to outlaw this non-transparent OTA Overcharging. Now is the time to act to protect consumers from harmful overcharging practices of OTA’s like eDreams, Vola and Booking.com.”