Ryanair mulls charge for toilets

[Flashback]

There aren't any sick bags on Ryanair, are there? (Don't tell me that they'll charge you for a sick bag)

If there are sick bags, then they are waterproof, right?

That's possibly one way to avoid the charge if you can avoid the indecency accusation that may go with it....

It certainly would have stuffed me up on my last few flights back to Perth! Funnily enough has only ever been the flight back, not the flight out.... :shock:

 

[samh004]

Recent reporting on the radio (following the carry-on baggage debacle with Spirit) has lead me to believe this charge for the use of the toilets is happening, while I thought it was just an idea (albeit a bad one).

As JohnK mentions, I do wonder what will happen when someone doesn’t have any change on them and they need to go badly. I welcome the first report of an arrest on the airline because someone couldn’t hold it in, the bad PR should be great for them!

I think in the long term they wont keep it, and obviously what happens when there’s a line of people waiting to use it, you open the door, step out, someone steps in before it’s closed and repeat, essentially 1 person pays.

 

[cmon0005]

Soon enough they might start charging for Oxygen on-board.. I wouldn't be surprised if Tiger follow suit.

 

[JohnK]

They won't charge for oxygen just yet.

Next up Ryanair will be introducing 2 class services. Standing class and Seated class. Of course the base airfare will be for standing room only and you need to pay extra if you want to sit....

 

[jsd]

and obviously what happens when there’s a line of people waiting to use it, you open the door, step out, someone steps in before it’s closed and repeat, essentially 1 person pays.

Thats what I thought, it makes no sense. then again people who fly Ryanair would of be so cheapskate as to pull something like that, or perhaps its like a primary school classroom where the FA's only let one person go at a time & they have to be back to their seat in 2 mins

 

[harvyk]

Recent reporting on the radio (following the carry-on baggage debacle with Spirit) has lead me to believe this charge for the use of the toilets is happening, while I thought it was just an idea (albeit a bad one).

I think it's probably going to happen, they have talked about it before so this time I expect they will put it in as a "trial", then remove it again a month later... Each time making sure the appropriate media releases get sent out to give them maximum world wide advertising at a minimum of cost...

I think in the long term they wont keep it, and obviously what happens when there’s a line of people waiting to use it, you open the door, step out, someone steps in before it’s closed and repeat, essentially 1 person pays.

I think this will be the reason why they will deem the "trial" a "failure"...

 

[Flashback]

I wonder who will be the first person to deliberately soil themselves to prove a point.. :shock:

 

[straitman]

I wonder who will be the first person to deliberately soil themselves to prove a point.. :shock:

Flashware,

Are you offereing to be the bunny :?:

 

[Flashback]

Flashware,

Are you offereing to be the bunny :?:

Not a chance!

 

[straitman]

Not a chance!

Just thought I'd ask on the off chance.

 

[Mal]

Awww. Boeing seems to have vetoed this idea:

Boeing won't scrap toilets for seats on Ryanair planes | Courier Mail

BUDGET airline Ryanair says aircraft manufacturer Boeing does not want to fulfil its request for planes with more seats and fewer toilets because it believes that would compromise passenger safety.

One does wonder (as has been suggested elsewhere) whether this is just a smokescreen rolled out to cover Ryanair's increase in baggage charges over the Northern Summer.

 

[harvyk]

Soon enough they might start charging for Oxygen on-board.. I wouldn't be surprised if Tiger follow suit.

If the oxygen mask drops from the ceiling, please insert £10 to start the flow of oxygen...

 

[Paddy55]

If the oxygen mask drops from the ceiling, please insert £10 to start the flow of oxygen...

... per 5 mins


Paddy

 

[straitman]

If the oxygen mask drops from the ceiling, please insert £10 to start the flow of oxygen...

... per 5 mins


Paddy

Correct money is not required but no change will be given :!:

 

[straitman]

An interesting addition to the discussion. There are quite a few links within the story but the story itself is probably the best descriptor.

Pay Toilets On Ryanair? Nope.

Posted by Andrew Compart at 4/13/2010 4:20 PM CDT
Ryanair's latest supposed proclamation about in-flight pay toilets generated a slew of news stories and blog rants. But considering the history of this this hype, at a carrier whose leader likes to create controversy to help brand Ryanair as cheap, I shied away from saying much about it. I talked to Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamamara yesterday, and it turns out my skepticism was justified.

First, let's review the history. Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary began talking about the pay toilet possibility in February 2009, as you can hear in this BBC interview. But, as I noted in this blog post at the time, the airline's spokesman backtracked a bit, and O'Leary has a long history of bluster. By early March 2009, even O'Leary admitted he just talked about pay toilets to get publicity for the carrier, when he told a tourism conference it would be technically impossible and legally difficult to do, the Irish Times reported at the time.

 

[JohnK]

So in short Michael O'Leary is a goose in charge of an airline who thinks we are all fools and thinks of ways to get cheap publicity.

Did I mention overpaid? How do some of these people end up with these type of jobs and salaries in our warped society?

 

[straitman]

So in short Michael O'Leary is a goose in charge of an airline who thinks we are all fools and thinks of ways to get cheap publicity.

That just about sums it up :!: