Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 low fares airline, today (Tues, 9 Dec) released its December OTA Survey, showing some OTAs like eDreams, Fru, and Tryp overcharging consumers almost 50% over Ryanair’s prices. These OTAs, do not have distribution agreements with Ryanair, because they wish to continue overcharging consumers. eDreams & Fru are this month’s worst offenders, with eDreams selling a reserved seat that costs just €10 on Ryanair.com for €14.86 – 48% more than Ryanair’s price, and Fru selling Priority boarding for 109.69zł over 48% more than the cost of just 74.00zł on Ryanair.com.

Ryanair continues to campaign to protect EU consumers form OTA overcharging and calls again on EU Govts (notably Spain’s useless Consumer Minister Bustinduy) and National Consumer Authorities to take urgent action to protect consumers from these overcharging OTAs. They should and insist on mandatory price transparency from all OTAs which is in line with the transparent pricing being delivered by all Ryanair’s “Approved OTA” partners, to protect consumers.

Ryanair’s Dara Brady said:

“Ryanair’s December OTA survey shows that eDreams, Fru, and Tryp continue to overcharge unsuspecting consumers almost 50% over the prices on Ryanair’s website. Most notably, Spain’s useless Consumer Minister Bustinduy, continues to do nothing to protect thousands of Spanish consumers from this eDreams overcharging.

Ryanair again calls on EU Govt and Consumer Protection Authorities to take urgent action to protect consumers across Europe by insisting on OTA price transparency standards in line with the transparency standards applied by all of Ryanair’s approved OTA partners.”