I'm sure we should ban computer geekery just as much as we ban technical train info, but...
There's nothing wrong with CGI. It's a perfectly valid way to build a website, albiet more expensive and time consuming to maintain than some of the newer technologies, particularly if you need to scale it across multiple servers.
I wouldn't build a new site out of it, but having invested heavily in developing a flight booking site on CGI, I wouldn't throw it all away as long as it;s working.
Ryanair don't do through booking. That's a business decision, and nothing to do with the technology they build their website on. If they took through bookings, they would presumably become liable if they cause you to miss your connecting flight.
CGI can be used as the interface for ASP, PHP, et all, but nowadays they mostly interact with the web server at a lower level, allowing a greater level of integration and performance.
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