O’Leary claims ‘ticket-tout’ websites inflated prices up to 300%

RYANAIR has written to the European Commission telling it “ticket-tout” websites have inflated its flights by as much as 300%.

The airline made the claim in defending its decision to cancel bookings made on the third-party websites.

Ryanair said it had provided the European Commission with detailed documentary evidence to demonstrate that the “screenscraper/ticket-tout” websites were: