The Italian Supreme Court quashes an appellate ruling that cleared an airline of abusing a dominant position over online travel agencies, citing a flawed relevant market analysis (Viaggiare / Ryanair)
Introduction The Italian Supreme Court has cassated, in part, a Milan Court of Appeal judgment that had cleared Ryanair of abusing a dominant position through its policy of reserving the sale of its own flight tickets exclusively to itself, to the exclusion of online travel agencies (OTAs). The Court held that the appellate judges had failed to carry out the