Why isn't Ryanair allowed to prohibit use of their website by resellers?
To give a more general answer than the sibling comment, setting conditions on how a product may be used usually distorts the market, harms buyers, and reduces competition, naturally to the benefit of the one setting the conditions.
For example selling cars that you're not allowed to use for "professional" use, only personal (as Nvidia does with forbidding datacenter use of some of its GPUs, charging extra for it). There was also a self-driving company that forbade buyers from using their cars to create a taxi service, essentially reserving that market for themselves. It may have been Tesla, but I can't find the story right now. In general living in a world where we need manufacturer's permission to do anything is less than ideal.
In this case I'm sure Ryanair would like to spin it as resellers upcharging customers, but by complete coincidence, their practices also prevent someone knowledgeable in all their dark patterns from protecting customers from them by acting as an intermediary.
Like running the only gas station in town and then refusing to sell fuel to a competitor who is trying to build a gas station that wants to compete with you.
RyanAir would get all the negatives from an unhappy customer and restricted ways to fix it.
Any issues at all and it wouldn't take much to make a sale unprofitable.
Ryanair is cheap, they charge extra for everything. But the tradeoff is you get where you are going for cheap if you avoid all the extras, including bottled water.
I just now booked a ticket on gotogate, paid 80 euro and received a receipt from ITA airways for 120 euro. They apparently lost 40 euro on this sale, I only had to click "no" on about 18 questions.
In my case in 2020 I had to request my refund via PayPal for Vayama
Whenever I fly, I always take an empty water bottle through security and then fill it in the secure zone.
This is nonsense. Third parties cannot provide extra luggage space, priority boarding etc.
No you don't. You can:
> deselect all the up charges
I don't think thats correct, people who use travel agents do so because they like the service or are unable to book for themselves, it's not wrong to offer a service and be paid for it and there isn't any broad evidence that travel agents misrepresent anything.
Ryanair are idiots to not accept free sales.
The OTAs are idiots for wanting to sell Ryanair flights without gaining a commission.
And the biggest idiots are the Italian court who sticks their filthy fingers in this whole business.