OT - more airline fun. Ryanair to charge for toilets

Sounds good. I would charge them back if they want me to flush.

business decision ever. Amazing.

Wait until passengers start relieving themselves in their seats and the airline has to pay someone to clean it up.

Just shows how removed from reality the people are who think these things up.

This typifies their total disregard for the customer. It isn't like you are walking in off the street to use a restaurant bathroom. You paid them for a freaking ticket.

Beyond reason

"I'm sorry, sir, we don't have change for a fifty."

Que the lawsuit.

This must be only for flights originating in Europe, because I don't believe this would even be legal for ones originating in the U.S.

Ryanair does a lot of short jumps between European cities, so I doubt this will drive many customers away.

A McNamara is mentioned in the article. Does anyone know if this is the same McNamara that has a terminal named after him at DTW?

Wait until the first time they make someone sit on the tarmac for three hours waiting to take off. Then they'll get some customer feedback.

Wow, this is almost as bad as extending the parking enforcement hours in downtown AA until 9pm.

http://www.annarbor.com/news/new-study-recommends-extending-downtown-ann...

I probably speak for myself only, but I hardly ever use airplane bathrooms, especially on short flights. If I had to pay a little to use it though I would. But how does this work? Do you have to insert a dollar in the door for it to open? Is there a flight attendant waiting outside the door to take money? This could get awkward.

I've flown Ryanair a few times. They are fantastically cheap with absolutely no frills. Charging for restroom use is a weird idea for Americans, but I doubt it'll significantly cut into their customer base.

On a flight from London to Ireland, my flight was delayed for an hour and a half because RyanAir had a problem with their plane door closing. Finally we boarded after they said it was fixed. When the attendant went to shut the door it bounced open...kind of like a car door does sometimes. After this happened for about five minutes we were all very concerned. Suddenly the pilot comes out of the cockpit....slams the crap out of the door...looks at all of us and yells, "alrighttt and we're off!"

So here is the takeoff-->>two Irish girls behind me yelling that we were all gonna die and this girl across the aisle who was flying for the first time passes out.

Pure RyanAir.

Charge what you need to for the TICKETS to make a profit, and then advertise that your tickets might be $100 more each way, but you'll actually enjoy flying with us! We won't treat you like crap and make you want to kill a stewardess with the drink cart!

You'll put the rest of the airlines out of business in a week.

Paying money to use a public bathroom is unheard of in the US, but it's actually fairly common in Europe. I doubt most Ryanair customers will think twice about it. And since they tend to run mostly short commuter flights, I doubt many passengers will be that deeply inconvenienced.

That said, if Delta tried this policy, it really would be a disaster.

and shit in the sink.