RYANAIR began legal proceedings in the High Court yesterday against a company which operates websites offering search and booking facilities for low-cost flights alleging “screen-scraping” of information from the airline’s websites for use on the other company’s sites.

THE National Consumer Agency (NCA) has called on Ryanair to honour bookings made by passengers through third-party websites amid threats by the airline that such customers will not be allowed to board their flights.

THOUSANDS of Ryanair passengers who book flights with the airline through intermediary websites face travel chaos from next Monday after being warned that they will be not be allowed to fly.

RYANAIR carried 19% more passengers last month despite worldwide airline passenger growth hitting a five-year low in June.