Thomas Cook has announced it will now offer Ryanair flights as part of its holidays programme following the integration with airline technology aggregator, Paxport.
Low cost flights from the carrier are now available to book as part of a Thomas Cook package holiday on the company’s UK website and will shortly be available on its European websites.
For Thomas Cook customers who wish to book Ryanair flights and ancillaries, the new partnership will seem them gain access to Ryanair fares combined with Thomas Cook’s extensive range of holiday packages.
Customers will now also receive all flight-related communications directly from Ryanair, including T&Cs and important flight updates.
This partnership also enables customer access to myRyanair account to manage bookings.
Customers now don’t have to complete Ryanair’s customer verification, too.
The move comes after Paxport announced it had achieved “approved OTA aggregator” status from Ryanair, allowing it to integrate its existing partners.
Thomas Cook is Paxport’s first partner to adopt the integration as part of its ambitious growth plans following the acquisition by eSky Group this month.
Trevor Bates, aviation manager of Thomas Cook, said: “We’ve been working with Paxport since they announced their partnership to integrate Ryanair flights as quickly as possible.
“With access now to thousands of low cost flights to some of Europe and North Africa’s most popular city and beach destinations, we know our customers will be happy to have the broadest choice of airlines available.”
Simon Taylor, head of commercial of Paxport, said: “Paxport’s integration with Ryanair, and working with the team at Thomas Cook, has been a hugely successful demonstration of partnership and collaboration.
“With a clear demand for Ryanair flights and through utilising proven technology, we’re excited to support our customers by offering connectivity to an ever growing number of travel businesses.”
Thomas Cook’s customers now have access to all of Ryanair’s UK routes for winter 2024 and into next year including city breaks to Dublin, beach holidays in Tenerife and ski trips to the Alps.
