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Ryanair and Booking.com reach tickets deal after long legal dispute
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 26, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 26, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Ryanair and Booking.com have settled their legal dispute with a new ticket resale agreement, ensuring price transparency and direct flight updates for customers.
DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ryanair has struck a deal with Booking Holdings to let its Booking.com and KAYAK websites resell the airline's tickets, the companies said on Tuesday, ending their years-long legal dispute.
Ryanair has in recent years launched a series of legal actions against third-party booking platforms that resell its tickets without agreement, including Booking. It has accused them of adding additional charges and making it difficult for the airline to contact passengers.
Since the start of last year, it has also signed agreements with platforms, including Kiwi.com and Expedia, to allow the resale of tickets.
A joint statement by Ryanair and Booking said the deal would provide "full price transparency" and allow customers to receive essential flight updates directly.
The agreement also relates to Booking's Priceline and Agoda websites, the statement added.
Ryanair said the partnership concludes all open litigation.
The parties had been seeking a ruling from a U.S. court on the legality of Booking websites scraping Ryanair's site. The case was brought initially by Ryanair in 2020, but has been subject to a series of appeals.
A number of online travel agents suddenly stopped selling Ryanair flights in December 2023 following legal and regulatory pressure.
The loss of that sales channel contributed to a fall in average fares of around 10% over the two summer quarters last year, but the airline has since said the issue has largely been resolved.
(Writing by Conor Humphries;Editing by Helen Popper and Barbara Lewis)
Ryanair reached a deal with Booking Holdings to allow its Booking.com and KAYAK websites to resell the airline's tickets, concluding years of legal disputes.
The agreement aims to provide 'full price transparency' and ensures that customers receive essential flight updates directly from Ryanair.
Ryanair had launched a series of legal actions against third-party booking platforms, including Booking.com, accusing them of reselling tickets without proper agreements.
The legal disputes led to several online travel agents stopping the sale of Ryanair flights, contributing to a fall in average fares by around 10% over two summer quarters last year.
In addition to Booking.com, Ryanair has signed agreements with other platforms like Kiwi.com and Expedia to allow the resale of its tickets.
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