Ryanair survey show consumers being overcharged by OTAs eDreams, Vola and Booking.com

Ryanair released its March OTA Survey, which shows a few remaining non-approved OTAs such as eDreams, Vola and Booking.com continue to overcharge consumers by up to 3 times more than Ryanair prices. This month Vola imposed the highest mark-up, overcharging more than triple the Ryanair price (15.99 euros) for a reserved seat that costs just 5.00 euros on Ryanair.com. eDreams also overcharged consumers (23.00 euros) for a reserved seat that cost just 8.00 euroson Ryanair’s website (+188%), while Booking.com was overcharging consumers up to 40% for reserved seats on other airlines which are 40% cheaper when booked directly on that airline’s website as set out below.Ryanair continues to call for consumers to be protected from non-transparent overcharging OTAs, like eDreams and Booking.com. Sadly, Spain’s Consumer Affairs Minister has still not taken any action when it comes to protecting Spanish consumers from these OTA overcharges in Spain. We call on the Spanish Consumer Affairs Ministry to finally take action and outlaw all such OTA overcharging of consumers in Spain, and force these OTAs to offer their consumers transparent pricing, just like Ryanair’s “Approved OTA” partners already do.

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