Blog home…. there was an injunction against Ryanair stopping them from cancelling any (organised by Rumbo)
As reported by the Belfast Telegaph [See article] [Via Hotel Marketing]
Yesterday, a court in Madrid sided with Spanish online travel website Rumbo, who in August applied for an injunction to prevent the low-cost carrier from going ahead with its plans to cancel flight bookings made through third-party websites.
Madrid’s Mercantile Court No 1 granted Rumbo’s application and has banned Ryanair from cancelling tickets booked by passengers through the Spanish website.
The ruling also asks Ryanair to remove its ’screenscraper’ warning from its website and to refrain from making statements discrediting other websites.
Oh dear….. oh dear.
Hopefully this will quieten down those who said that the proposed ticket cancellation was ”just for PR”…. .when, behind the scenes, looks like a right old legal battle taking place. This isn’t quite in the same league as the net neutrality debate….. but this ruling could make travel ecommerce interesting over the coming years…… (unless it is reversed). The gloves will now come off.
Also, interesting we hear this from the Belfast Telegraph (who are no where near Spain as far as I know). They get bonus marks for this one……
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Is this just a Spanish injunction or an EU one? Does it include or relate to non-EU territories?
er – I was going to ask you guys!
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if its a spanish court this is valid for spain and transactions IN SPAIN
so its not a paneuropean “order”
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