{"id":24671,"date":"2025-08-26T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24671\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:40:07","slug":"ryanair-agrees-deal-with-booking-com-owner-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24671\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair agrees deal with Booking.com owner \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryanair\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryanair\/\">Ryanair <\/a>will allow online travel giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/booking-com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/booking-com\/\">Booking.com<\/a> and related sites sell its flights following a deal between the two sides announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish airline had accused sites owned by Booking Holdings, including Booking.com, of illegally selling its flights and adding charges of their own on top of Ryanair fares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, both companies confirmed on Tuesday that they had agreed a partnership that would allow Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline and Agoda sell Ryanair flights to customers buying holidays through those sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dara O\u2019Brady, Ryanair chief marketing officer, said the deal would assure customers of \u201cfull price transparency\u201d and that they would get flight updates direct to their phones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Todd Henrich, Booking Holdings senior vice-president, said the company was \u201cpleased to partner with Ryanair to give travellers greater choice and value\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2024\/07\/20\/us-court-rules-in-favour-of-ryanair-against-bookingcom-in-screen-scraping-case\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US court rules in favour of Ryanair against Booking.com in screen-scraping caseOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The partnership is the latest, and one of largest, in a series of such deals that Ryanair has done with online travel agents since early last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair will allow online travel giant Booking.com and related sites sell its flights following a deal between the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[7485,79,18,19,17,623],"class_list":{"0":"post-24671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-booking-com","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-ryanair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}