9 SEP: Controversial budget airline Ryanair has won a court case against a Spanish website, but has been ordered to stop using the term ‘bastards’ to describe the company.
The carrier took action over so-called screen scraping, where price comparison websites lift details from a carrier’s website to produce a mirror image on its own site, allowing customers to make bookings without going to the airline’s site.
Ryanair has previously taken action against such sites in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Holland.
Now, a court in Barcelona has ruled that the airline is entitled, under Spanish law, to distribute its fares exclusively on its own site.
But the court banned Ryanair from publicly describing the Atrapalo site as "bastards", though it can continue referring to such sites as "parasites of the sector", "dead wood" and "illegal sellers".
