Ryanair suing Skyscanner for allegedly selling flights through its domain

Ryanair is suing flight-price comparison website Skyscanner for allegedly selling the airline’s flights through its own domain and through links to online travel agents. It is also seeking an injunction requiring Skyscanner, Skyscanner Holdings and Skyscanner 2018, to end the selling-on through the use of “screenscraping” whereby the information on the Ryanair website is used for comparing the prices of similar flights. The dispute arose after Ryanair discovered last November that Skyscanner had been permitting website users to use a “green flights filter”, to only show results for flights with lower CO2 emissions. Ryanair became concerned it was being ranked and/or filtered in an inaccurate and/or unfair manner. <br/>