Standing room only

[straitman]

Another article with a little more info.

Ryanair pledges $6 standing-room-only fares, but some smell a hoax.

By Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY
An employee at Germany's Hahn airport directs an airplane of Irish airline Ryanair.
By Thomas Lohnes, AFP/Getty Images

Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair is at it again. The airline -- the same one that keeps promising to introduce the pay toilet now says it's working on a "standing-room-only" vertical seating section in which seats would cost as little as £4 -- or roughly $6.

The London Telegraph reports Ryanair is planning to introduce "a standing area" with "vertical seats" on its jets. Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary tells the paper "we've been looking at … taking out the last 10 rows of seats so we will have 15 rows of seats and the equivalent of 10 rows of standing area."

 

[Groundfeeder]

The floor based compartment idea would of course be not as high as the overhead lockers.

I believe we discussed this in relation to a good place to store children in flight.

 

[straitman]

I believe we discussed this in relation to a good place to store children in flight.

This appears to be about the only one of the many suggested positives that I can see to be useful :!:

The USA Today article is as usual a bit off the mark but I really believe that the hoax angle is just that, and that this will never actually grow legs. (pun intended)