Ireland-based low-cost airline Ryanair has announced another ‘Approved OTA Aggregator’ partnership with Travelfusion, claimed to be the world’s largest flight aggregator, which is now authorised to offer Ryanair’s low fare flights to its network of OTA partners providing full price transparency.
This new deal is claimed to ensure that customers that book Ryanair flights through Travelfusion OTA partners can access their bookings in their myRyanair account, without needing to complete Ryanair’s customer verification (which unauthorised OTA customers must continue to do) and will receive essential flight updates directly.
The company says that this is great news for Travelfusion’s OTA partners whose customers wish to book Ryanair’s low fares and choice of 240+ destinations. Travelfusion is Ryanair’s second ‘Approved OTA aggregator’ partner, joining the airlines growing list of ‘Approved OTA’ partners, including Expedia, Etraveli, loveholidays, lastminute.com, Kiwi, TUI, On the Beach, eSky, El Corte Ingles, Braganza and Paxport, as the airline says that it continues to demonstrate how OTAs and OTA aggregators can work transparently without hidden mark-ups.’
Ryanair’s CMO, Dara Brady, said: ‘We are thrilled to be partnering with the world’s largest flight aggregator, Travelfusion. This exciting new agreement will see Travelfusion authorised to offer Ryanair’s low fare flights to their global network of connected OTA partners providing full price transparency. As an ‘Approved OTA Aggregator’ this agreement also guarantees that customers who book a Ryanair flight through one of Travelfusion’s OTA partners will have access to their myRyanair account without needing to complete Ryanair’s customer verification and will receive all essential flight updates directly from Ryanair.
We look forward to working with Travelfusion and building on this fantastic new partnership.’
Eytan Bicaci Baruh, Travelfusion vice president Commercial, said: ‘Travelfusion is delighted to announce our new partnership with Ryanair. This landmark agreement will allow Travelfusion, the world’s largest flight content aggregator, to collaborate with Europe’s No 1. airline in our mission to deliver the very best value and richest content offering possible to our customers. We look forward to working together to make Ryanair fares and ancillaries available to all approved agencies within our global network of connected OTAs, OBTs, TMCs, and tour operators. This agreement marks a true milestone in Travelfusion’s continued journey to achieve global coverage in flight content and offer the best possible value, ancillaries, and functionality to our customers.’
