SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of August, 2008
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation of registrant's name into English)
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address of principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F..X.. Form 40-F.....
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information
contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934.
Yes ..... No ..X..
If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant
in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________
BRAVOFLY LTD DISCONTINUES SCREENSCRAPING RYANAIR.COM
RYANAIR TO CANCEL ALL SCREENSCRAPER BOOKINGS
Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline today (
Tuesday,
5
th
August
2008
) announced
that BravoFly Ltd
(an Irish screenscraping price comparison website
)
has confirmed that it has discontinued screenscraping the Ryanair.com website
as part of legal proceedings filed against both it and its parent company BravoFly
SA. This is the second recent success Ryanair has scored against screenscraping
websites and follows Ryanair's successful injunction against V-tours to prevent
them from screenscraping Ryanair's website in
Germany
.
Ryanair has a policy of preventing screenscrapers unlawfully accessing Ryanair's
website, because in many cases these screenscrapers are engaged in some or all of
the following unlawful/inappropriate behaviour:
-
They are in breach of Ryanair's copyright rules.
-
They are in breach of Ryanair.com's terms of use.
-
They are levying unjustified and unnecessary handling charges (in some
cases up to double the Ryanair fare) on Ryanair passengers.
-
They don't provide passengers with Ryanair's accurate terms/conditions.
-
They don't provide passengers with up to date flight or change information.
-
They are delaying ordinary passengers' access to the Ryanair.com website.
Commenting on this latest success against screenscrapers, Ryanair's Howard
Millar said:
"We welcome this latest success against screenscrapers, as we continue our
campaign to eliminate this unlawful activity from the Ryanair website. Ryanair is
pursuing legal actions in a number of European countries to bring an end to this
unlawful and anti-consumer activity.
"Many of these screenscrapers do not provide consumers with any useful services,
because consumers know that they will get the lowest fares only on Ryanair.com,
thanks to Ryanair's lowest fare guarantee.
However
,
in recent weeks genuine passengers using Ryanair's website have been
suffering long processing times and slower access because of the huge volume of
information being downloaded from our website by these screenscrapers all over
Europe. In all cases this scraping activity is unlawful and in breach of both
Ryanair.com's copyright and terms of use.
"We are determined to eliminate these illegal practices, particularly in cases
where passengers are being misled by screenscrapers into paying higher fares,
unjustified handling fees and hotel and car hire charges that are higher than they
otherwise would be on Ryanair.com.
"Ryanair will next Monday (11
th
Aug) introduce new procedures to cancel all passenger bookings made
through screenscraping websites. We believe this is a quicker and more effective
way of discouraging this unlawful activity and we hope that by getting rid
of
screenscrapers we will speed up passenger processing times on Ryanair.com, as
well as ensuring that Ryanair passengers are not paying unnecessary handling
charges or higher fares to screenscrapers. Ryanair is continuing to work with our
software providers, Navitaire and Microsoft to proactively eliminate screenscraping
of Ryanair's website. We hope this will ensure that genuine consumers can purchase
Europe's guaranteed lowest air fares while enjoying rapid access and quicker
processing times for
their bookings on Ryanair.com
"
.
Ends.
Tuesday, 5
th
August 2008
Stephen McNamara
- Ryanair
P
auline McAlester - Murray Consultants
Tel: 00 353 1 812 1598
Tel: 00 353 1 4980 300
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly
authorized.
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
Date: 05 August 2008
By:___/s/ James Callaghan____
James Callaghan
Company Secretary & Finance Director