So-called online travel agents, who sell airline tickets over the Internet without any distribution agreement, are always in the crossfire of criticism. Ryanair in particular is verbally and legally critical of such providers. Until a few months ago, the carrier had no distribution agreements at all. That has now changed, as the airline is now cooperating with Tui and Kiwi, for example. However, there are still OTAs that "buy" tickets from Ryanair and other airlines using screen scrapping and then resell them to their customers. Occasionally, they advertise in search engines with prices that are lower than those found on the airlines' homepages. Often, they then charge significant surcharges for additional services such as seat reservations, checked baggage and other optional items, which are significantly higher than those charged by the airline. This is precisely what Ryanair is criticizing. "Ryanair has today (April 10) released its April OTA pirate survey, which has once again revealed eDreams as the No. 1 OTA pirate in April. eDreams charges consumers €25,24 for an €8 reserved seat on Ryanair.com (a hidden markup of 216%) and also charges consumers double for Ryanair's 10kg baggage allowance (€39,42 compared to just €19,79 on Ryanair.com). While eDreams is the most rip-off OTA pirate in April, Ryanair's survey shows that other OTA pirates such as Opodo, Gotogate and Mytrip also continue to scam unsuspecting consumers with hidden markups and fictitious 'service' fees of up to €65 per booking, despite there being no such fees on Ryanair.com," the budget airline said in