October 04, 2021
Southwest Airlines scored a preliminary win against online "cheap flights" aggregator Kiwi.com when a federal judge ordered the website to temporarily stop scraping and publishing the airline's flight data and barred it from selling Southwest flights.
August 11, 2021
A Texas federal judge has refused to toss Southwest Airlines' lawsuit against online aggregator Kiwi.com, saying her court has jurisdiction and is favoring the carrier's argument that the Czech Republic-headquartered tech firm illegally hacked its Texas-based website to scrape flight and pricing data.
July 14, 2021
Southwest Airlines Co. has hit back against online flight aggregator Kiwi.com's argument that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling dooms the airline's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claim, saying the decision doesn't apply to the aggregator's alleged hacking and scraping of flight information.
June 23, 2021
Online flight aggregator Kiwi.com told a Texas federal court Southwest Airlines can't sue it for "unauthorized access" of its reservation system after the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month narrowed the scope of enforceable computer crimes.
June 15, 2021
Southwest Airlines has said Texas federal court is an appropriate home for its lawsuit against a website that allegedly "scraped" its reservation system without authorization, claiming Kiwi.com made millions of dollars reselling flight tickets in the Lone Star State.
April 20, 2021
Czech Republic-based Kiwi.com is pushing to throw out a Southwest Airlines trademark infringement suit accusing the travel site of "scraping" the carrier's reservation system to offer flights without authorization, saying the case doesn't belong in Texas federal court.
March 26, 2021
Kiwi.com has urged a Texas federal court to deny Southwest Airlines' proposed injunction preventing the travel website from listing flight information while the companies fight over the site's right to display it, saying the airline has unfairly created a monopoly in its publicly available fare data.
January 15, 2021
Southwest Airlines, which doesn't allow online booking services to sell its tickets, is using trademark law to sue a website that allegedly "scraped" Southwest's reservation system to offer flights without authorization.