As I have just written in the Easyjet topic
Originally Posted by
eu01
Easyjet has announced it is to reduce the fees it levies on bookings made through the global distribution systems.
In contrast to the recent action taken by Ryanair to cancel bookings made by travel agencies through screen scraping, Easyjet is providing an alternative legitimate booking channel for business travel agencies, while maintaining a firm stance against unlicensed screen scraping. Most screen scraping systems are voluntarily switching off screen scraping to move to the Application Programming Interface (API) channel. Having direct connections to Easyjet’s fares (through API) the travel management companies are able to display them in their own booking environment.
While EZY is looking for compromises, Ryanair is not. Interestingly, while the easyjet.com site has been working very smoothly, ryanair.com struggles constantly to cope with its basic tasks. Even though some screenscrapers supposedly gave up, the site has been very slow today... again and again. These system problems are still waiting to be fully acknowledged by the carrier, who prefers to scapegoat others instead.