The Competition Claim In its action against Ryanair, OTB asserts that: OTB (like other online travel agents) competes with Ryanair both in providing fight booking services to consumers, and in ofering to arrange ancillary travel services such as hotel accommodation. It also competes with other airlines, ancillary travel service providers, and traditional travel agents (as well as other online travel agents). It has, together with other online travel agents and price comparison websites, brought increased competition in these respects, providing real benefts to consumers: (1) Compared to booking diferent holiday components (for example, fight and hotel) with diferent providers: (a) OTB provides a “one-stop shop”; (b) As OTB enables customers to purchase multiple travel services in one transaction, it assumes a number of obligations under the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 , including an 7 obligation to ensure the proper performance of the package holiday (even though OTB is not the provider of the individual components), and to allow the consumer to transfer the package holiday to another person. (2) Compared to booking directly with an airlines such as Ryanair, OTB enables consumers to compare prices across, and choose between, a wide range of airlines and hotels, and combine them at will, including by combining inbound and outbound fights from diferent airlines. The UK iteration of the Package Travel Directive 2015/2302. 7
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