Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 low fares airline, today (Tues, 13 Jan) released its Jan OTA Survey, showing some OTAs like eDreams, Vola, and Tryp are overcharging consumers more than three times Ryanair’s website prices. These OTAs do not have distribution agreements with Ryanair because they wish to continue overcharging consumers. eDreams & Vola are this month’s worst offenders, with eDreams selling a reserved seat that costs just €4.06 on Ryanair.com for €14.18 – over three times Ryanair’s price, and Vola selling a 10kg bag for €25.00, which is 67% more than the cost of just €14.99 on Ryanair.com.

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

Ryanair’s Dara Brady said:

“Ryanair’s January OTA survey shows that eDreams, Vola, and Tryp continue to overcharge unsuspecting consumers by more than three times the prices quoted on Ryanair’s website. Yet still, Spain’s useless Consumer Minister Bustinduy, refuses to do anything 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, in line with the transparency standards applied by all of Ryanair’s approved OTA partners.”