Ryan air to charge to use toilet

Quasar

A toilet is a basic hygienic service. Whether the airline can legally charge for it is irrelevant, because it is ultimately in the interest of the airline that its passengers have free access to a toilet as and when they need it.

Insensitivity to customer care can cost far more than a poxy toilet charge would bring in. Begin to charge for this that and the other, and only the most stupid will still believe they are travelling at a bargain price. In the end it will become easier to fly with one of the main airline, particularly when passengers see that saving a few quid is not worth the hassle of having to work out how much this, how much that.

I fly British Airways from Heathrow. I book, I pay and I go, without any kerfuffle as to what extras I have to pay for and so on. It costs me more than Ryanair of course, but then I'd have to pay to get to a far off airport to fly Ryanair, and that adds to the cost. At the end of it I wouldn't be that much better off anyway.

old_motters

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Of course it's acceptable. There's a toilet available, of which I could avail provided I pay the charge. It's no different to many UK cities - where there are no free public toilet facilities available and the only ones available are CUSTOMERS ONLY.

If you can't control your bladder, then you pay. It's simple and fair.

Once again, who cares about what happens in other places. As you're well aware, an airline passenger is captive and there is no alternative. And to suggest bladder control as a cost control method is preposterous. I can only assume you're not serious and must be yanking my chain.

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Isn't urinating in public a criminal offence in the UK? It certainly is in Poland.

It is, but it's still an option if no one is looking. Tell me what my alternatives are stuck 30000ft up.

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Why should they be forced into something that reduces choice for the consumer? I am perfectly capable of making a decision over whether or not I want to fly with an airline that charges for use of the toilet.

It is the consumers call, but consumers are notoriously stupid and need protecting from themselves. I wouldn't discount myself from that.

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

I expect Ryanair to do what they've told me they'll do - take me from A to B, leaving on time and arriving on time. Anything else is a bonus - and quite frankly, I'd rather have cheaper fares than have unwanted 'bonuses'. Other people may be different - but the consumers should dictate, not the government.

Going to the bathroom is not a luxury or a 'bonus' as you so eloquently put it, it's basic service provision. Try to understand this.

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

It beggars belief that people would rather pay higher fares in exchange for a facility being available that they won't use.

It's presumptuous to assume they won't use it and that they would rather have cheap fares in exchange for loss of toilet facilities.

lelasuzi

Its never going to happen. O`Leary must be laughing his socks off at all of us. Who`s crazy, us or him?