Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:19 GMT
"consumers are being misled by these screen-scrapers into paying 'handling charges' for Ryanair’s flights when they can purchase the same flights with no handling charge on www.ryanair.com"....
Ha ha ha. No handling charges on Ryanair.com. Good one. Ryanair, the place where a £20 flight actually costs £80.
Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:19 GMT
"It is simply unacceptable that consumers are being misled by these screen-scrapers into paying 'handling charges' for Ryanair’s flights when they can purchase the same flights with no handling charge on www.ryanair.com,"
RyanAir complaining about people having to pay unwarranted charges???
Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:19 GMT
but for overcharging for their service.
Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:22 GMT
..cutting off a route to market. It looks like a free sale to me.
Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:53 GMT
" .... video or software pirates ... "
For Ryanair to accuse anyone else of being a "pirate" is frankly unbelievable.
Paris, because even she couldn't afford a ride with Michael O'Leary
Posted Friday 11th July 2008 13:24 GMT
Only Ryanair are allowed to overcharge for their shitty service.
Posted Friday 11th July 2008 13:24 GMT
a) the service the scrapers provide is comparing ryanairs price with other airlines - I'd pay a little for that
b) ryanair obviously don't want their prices compared...
/bfg
Posted Friday 11th July 2008 14:38 GMT
Looking at Martin Lewis’s Budget Airline FlightChecker, I see that Ryanair are currently not included. The statement implies there are technical difficulties preventing the inclusion of Ryanair’s flights, rather than any legal worries.
http://flightchecker.moneysavingexpert.com/
“Ryanair’s website is currently having difficulties so none of its flights are included in any results.”
Are Ryanair so confident they’ve brainwashed the ‘budget’ flier into thinking they’re always the cheapest that they feel they don’t need to be included in any price comparisons? If they are, they’re very brave.
Posted Sunday 13th July 2008 12:44 GMT
you'll see Ryanair and the others giving out press releases telling you that they have authorized the scrappers and that they can now provide superior user experience, and the such.
What they will not tell you is that EasyJet and Ryanair will get paid for every single query that they get from the scrappers.
Posted Sunday 13th July 2008 12:44 GMT
"which will prevent these profiteering middlemen from engaging in the mis-selling of Ryanair’s flights and information"
I guess they don't want anybody taking a slice of the profiteering or mis-selling action.
Posted Friday 25th July 2008 11:22 GMT
Screen scraping could be a risky business if the scraped data has SQL injections or script injections designed to attack the scarper's database or web applications.
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