UK online travel operator, On the Beach group, awarded over £2 million damages after successfully suing Ryanair.

Travel tech company, Kiwi.com welcomes the decision of the UK High Court to uphold On the Beach group’s application for Ryanair to pay back what was owed in unpaid refunds.

Kiwi.com CEO, Oliver Dlouhý, commented, “We welcome this decision as a step in the right direction to ensuring customers are free to choose their preferred way to book without penalty and that booking by an intermediary is not used as an excuse to avoid refunding cancelled tickets.”

The award is part of a case that was launched in October 2021; On the Beach sued Ryanair for blocking them from booking flights with the airline and sought damages over refunds that it had paid out.

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