Ryanair considering charging for using the toilet

mobby-2554

Ryanair are considering charging for using the toilet?

Instead of charging people who are over weight!

sturll

mobby-2554 wrote: »

Ryanair are considering charging for using the toilet?

Instead of charging people who are over weight!

When all this overweight charges thing was being mooted i said right from the off it would never be a reality.

Thankfully in the UK we have laws to restrict such discrimination.

mobby-2554

Charging people who are over weight.

In a BBC interview with Michael O’Leary he said they could not determine a weight to apply this.

He did say there is going to be a charge for using the toilet & people should use the toilets in the terminals before they board. If they do not want to pay.

I was thinking of booking a flight to Tenerife.
That's over a 4hr flight don't think OH could hang on that long?

withabix

Straight jacket for Loony O'Leary please!

fifeken

Or a straight jacket for the people who believe he was seriously thinking about charging for the toilet.

mobby-2554

Ryanair mulls charge for toilets


Michael O'Leary: 'People might have to spend a pound to spend a penny'


Irish budget airline Ryanair has said it is considering charging passengers for using the toilet while flying.

Chief executive Michael O'Leary told the BBC that the Dublin-based carrier was looking at maybe installing a "coin slot on the toilet door".

Consumer group Which? said the airline was putting "profit before passengers".

Ryanair's PR chief Steven McNamara later played down the idea, saying: "I don't think it's going to happen in the foreseeable future".

"Will it happen long-term, I'm not really sure," he said.

"It's one of those things that when Michael starts looking at something, you know, it's always up for discussion."

Last week Ryanair confirmed it planned to close all of its airport check-in desks by the end of the year in a bid to reduce the cost of its flights.

'Fast buck'

Ryanair aims to offer low basic ticket prices, and then charge extra for items such as checking in at the airport or for additional luggage.

"One thing we have looked at in the past, and are looking at again, is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door, so that people might actually have to spend a pound to spend a penny in future," he told the BBC.

He added: "I don't think there is anybody in history that has got on board a Ryanair aircraft with less than a pound."

But Rochelle Turner, head of research at Which? Holiday, said: "It seems Ryanair is prepared to plumb any depth to make a fast buck and, once again, is putting profit before the comfort of its customers. "Charging people to go to the toilet might result in fewer people buying overpriced drinks on board, though - that would serve Ryanair right."


What about anyone flying with children they always need the toilet?

moneymakestheworldgoround

God I'm pregnant - it would cost me more in loo charges than the actual flight !!!

PolishBigSpender

Seems fair enough to me - toilets add weight, which costs money. Why shouldn't Ryanair charge people to use them?

mobby-2554

Not coming into effect yet so you'll be okay.
Alhough maybe we could take our own potty?

In the Sun;

RYANAIR boss Michael O'Leary WILL charge passengers a quid to spend a penny within the next two years.

The chief executive today insisted he was deadly serious about introducing a mid-air toilet tax.

And he added that the low-cost airline was already in talks with BOEING about designing a plane with one toilet instead of the current three.

This would free up the space for six extra seats.

Mr O'Leary said of his loo levy: "There's not much I copy from British Rail but I got the idea when I had to spend 20p to go to the toilet at Liverpool Street."

He added: "By putting in an extra six seats we can lower fares for everyone.

"I think if you asked passengers 'would you be prepared to do with fewer toilets for lower fares?', they'd say yes."

The comments came as Ryanair revealed its first loss in 20 YEARS — as it counted the cost of a huge fuel bill and losses on shares in rival AER LINGUS.

The airline fell £145.9million into the red in the year to April — compared with profits of £336.8million the year before.

But Mr O'Leary pledged that Ryanair would soar back into the black in the current year as fuel costs are forecast to plunge by as much as 50 per cent.


He promised that passengers would benefit — with fares likely to come down by 20 per cent.

Ryanair expects to fly 67million people in 2009-2010 — more than BRITISH AIRWAYS, AIR FRANCE or LUFTHANSA.

Mr O'Leary said Ryanair was poaching customers from all three of its "high cost" rivals. He added the biggest rise was in business customers

joolsybools

Have you seen the latest interview with Mr O'Leary on the BBC website today? Talk about DELUDED!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8078349.stm

In particular: "The Irish airline made a net loss of 169m euros ($239m; £146m) in the year to 31 March. This compares with a profit of 481m euros a year before.

Mr O'Leary said the carrier expected to report profits of between 200m and 300m euros for its current financial year, as its continues to attract more passenger through cutting ticket prices.
"I think the reason we're growing so strongly is you know we're this year going to carry twice the total number of passengers as British Airways, business class is now officially dead," he told the BBC.


Ha ha ha, cutting prices indeed. How do you work that one out then?

Seriously deluded!

mobby-2554

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Seems fair enough to me - toilets add weight, which costs money. Why shouldn't Ryanair charge people to use them?

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see nothing wrong with charging to use the toilet on the plane, and I hope it happens.[/QUOTE]

Could you tell me why you are never nice or even polite on your posts??