More nonsense from Ryanair's O'Leary
01.07.10
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said today that the airline is planning to run flights where passengers stand during the journey at a cost of just £5 per ticket. He also raised the prospect of charging customers to use the loo again, the Telegraph reports. The CAA rejected the first suggestion and Boeing have already rejected the second.
Mr O'Leary said a standing area with ‘vertical seats’ will be introduced at the back of the budget airline's fleet of 250 planes. He said that charging customers £1 to use toilets would encourage travellers on one hour flights to use lavatories at the airport instead of on the aircraft. Previously he suggested that this would allow the airline to remove the toilets at the back for the plane, to install more seats, but Boeing said this would not be possible without re certifying the plane.
A spokesman for the CAA said the plans for standing seats would not meet safety requirements. He told the Telegraph: ‘It is aviation law that people have to have a seat-belt on from take-off and landing so they would have to be in a seat. I don't know how Mr O'Leary would get around that one. During turbulence passengers also have to have a seat-belt on.’
Plane maker Boeing have previously dismissed both the standing seats and the pay-to-pee idea as unworkable. We don't understand why Mr O'Leary keeps suggesting ideas that clearly will not happen. We would have thought his comments yesterday (cutting UK flights by 16% this winter) would have gained enough free publicity.
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