Ryanair Sees Sales Shortfall as Online Travel Agents Cut Flights
- Online aggregators stopped selling Ryanair flights in December
- Ryanair expects short-term load factors to drop up to 2%
Ryanair airplanes at Stansted Airport in Stansted, UK.
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Ryanair Holdings Plc’s victory in removing flights from online travel agents’ websites will cost the airline ticket sales in the short term.
Aggregators such as Booking.com, Kayak and Kiwi abruptly stopped selling Ryanair flights on their platforms in December, the Irish low-cost airline said in a statement on Wednesday.