Form 6-K - Report of foreign issuer [Rules 13a-16 and 15d-16]
19 Julio 2024 - 9:19AM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
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 July 2024
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.
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No ..X..
If
"Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the
registrant
in
connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________
RYANAIR WINS ITS CASE AGAINST TRAVEL GIANT BOOKING.COM
IN
DELAWARE COURT RULING
JURY RULES THAT BOOKING.COM VIOLATED U.S. COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE
ACT (CFAA)
WITH INTENT TO DEFRAUD RYANAIR
JURY DISMISSES BOOKING.COM'S COUNTERCLAIM AGAINST RYANAIR
ARGUING
DEFAMATION, AND UNFAIR COMPETITION
Ryanair
Holdings Plc, today (Fri 19 Jul), welcomed the unanimous verdicts
of the jury in the Delaware District Court, which last evening
unanimously ruled in favour of Ryanair's claims that Booking.com
had violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, causing loss to
Ryanair. The jury also ruled that Booking.com had done so knowingly
with "intent to defraud", and that Ryanair had suffered economic
harm as a result of Booking.com's unlawful screenscraping
activity.
The
Delaware Court jury also dismissed all Booking.com's counterclaims
against Ryanair, which included claims for defamation, unfair
competition, and deceptive trade practices. These Delaware Court
rulings prove that Booking.com was knowingly engaged in unlawful
screenscraping of the Ryanair.com website, with an intent to
defraud Ryanair. Ryanair has long complained about the deceptive
practices of OTA Pirates like Booking.com, who used intermediate
software providers to scrape Ryanair's website, and then use this
information to overcharge consumers for Ryanair air fares and/or
ancillary services but mask these anti-consumer practices by making
bookings using fake customer emails and fake customer payment
cards.
Ryanair's CEO Michael O'Leary said:
"Ryanair and our customers warmly welcome yesterday's unanimous
jury ruling in the Delaware Court, which comprehensively (found in
favour of Ryanair, proving that the travel industry giant
Booking.com had illegally "scraped" Ryanair's website, and did so
with an intention to defraud both Ryanair and ordinary consumers,
which was in breach of the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. We
expect that this ruling will end the internet piracy and
overcharging perpetrated on both airlines and other travel
companies and consumers by the unlawful activity of OTA Pirates
like Booking.com.
It is unacceptable that global giants, like Booking.com (mkt cap
$133 billion), have been engaged in these illegal and deceptive
practices for many years with the intent to defraud both Ryanair
and consumers. Ryanair has fought to protect consumers and ensure
that they have direct access to Ryanair's low fares, and our
low-price ancillary services without OTAs, like Booking.com and
others, inserting themselves into this relationship in order to
overcharge unsuspecting consumers who believe they are booking
directly with Ryanair, but in fact are being duped into booking (at
inflated prices) via these OTA Pirates like Booking.com.
We also welcome the Delaware Courts rejection of Booking.com's
counterclaims that they had been defamed by Ryanair when calling
them an OTA Pirate. We hope these Delaware Court rulings will now
see an end to OTA Pirates illegally screenscraping travel websites
like Ryanair.com, and will force consumer agencies across the UK
and Europe to finally take action to outlaw this illegal
screenscraping and over charging of consumers for flights and
ancillary services.
This ruling is a great victory for low fare air travel, and it's a
great win for the travelling public as well. We sincerely thank the
District Court of Delaware and the jury for their ruling, which
completely vindicates Ryanair's case against Booking.com on behalf
of our customers. We now call on Booking.com's vastly overpaid CEO
Glen Fogel ($46m pay in 2023) that he and his company will cease
scraping the Ryanair.com website and stop overcharging consumers
with inflated air fares and ancillary services, now that
Booking.com has been found to be in breach of the US Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act."
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For further info
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please
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Ryanair Press Office
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Tel: +353-1-9451799
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press@ryanair.com
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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.
Date: 19
July, 2024
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By:___/s/
Juliusz Komorek____
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Juliusz
Komorek
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Company
Secretary
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Ryanair (PK) (USOTC:RYAOF)
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