You knew it was coming.......Airline considers "fee to pee"

[marmar]

from the BBC:



Ryanair mulls charge for toilets


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".

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. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7914542.stm

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. I want the Depends concession at the airport. nt

[Initech]

28. Yeah no shit.

[hobbit709]

2. The new corporate policy as started by the banks

Fee you to death on everything imaginable.

[MadHound]

3. If I've got to go, they've got two options

I can either pee in the aisle, or use the toilet. If they put a coin slot on the door, it will be the aisle just out of the sheer principle of the matter.

[liberal N proud]

5. Yep

[barbtries]

4. i think they should reconsider

or after a while their planes won't be fit to sit in.

[jody]

6. ROFL because I read your post as "after a while their planes won't be fit to s*it in."

[barbtries]

24. lol

that too

[Jamastiene]

7. That's just not gonna work. n/t

[KharmaTrain]

8. And Will The Also Charge Extra For Armed Guards?

A couple years ago I was on a flight where the front crapper went out shortly after take-off and the rear one was having problems as well...not a good sign on a 4 hour flight from LA to Chicago. The line grew long and irate as a combination of nature and a backed up crapper freyed nerves...or to quote my mother, "it was ready to come squirting out of their ears".

A long time ago, the airport learned to remove their "10 cent hapinesses" after people vandalized them and I could just imagine the "delight" on the eyes of passengers who find out, after take off on a 6-hour flight that they'll have to ante up. Stupid is as stupid does...another reason I've stayed clear of airlines and airports these days. If it's not the greed, it's the lack of any passenger or customer service or respect.

[Vinca]

9. Note to self. Never fly Ryanair if there is any possibility

the passenger next to you plans to fill his pants.

[tanyev]

10. Just wait until they install a coin slot to get an emergency oxygen mask.

[annabanana]

11. oh my THAT should work out well. .

(The pub culture is alive & well on the Emerald Isle)

[Lost in CT]

12. Well their flights tend to be short and super-cheap... that said I am

old enough to remember pay toilets and we moved forward as a civilized nation when we eliminated them.

[Captain Hilts]

17. They were seen as sexist, because there were never fees for urinals. nt

[Lost in CT]

18. I did not know that. Well whatever the reason good riddance. nt

[mamameow]

30. pay=clean

i remember the restrooms in the 50's in downtown detroit, like hudson's and crowley's department store. the pay toilets were kept clean while the free ones were not cleaned. talk about blackmail!!!

[AyanEva]

13. Well

I hope they at least put a change machine on the flight. :/

[old mark]

14. Just a few people pissing in the aisle

might change their mind....


nark

[goddess40]

16. Gas passing

In respect for the other passengers I always walk to the toilet to pass gas. So much for that!

[old mark]

20. You know they recycle the cabin air in those things.....nt

[irish.lambchop]

15. Michael O'Leary is the south end of a north-bound horse and

Ryanair sucks. Do yourself a favor and pay a bit more to fly Aer Lingus.

[eilen]

19. Screw that

If I can't drive or take the train, I'll be taking the ocean liner.

After that plane crashed into a house in Buffalo, the drunken pilot story, and Sully's testimony before Congress, I don't trust the airlines.

No more flying for me.

[road2000]

21. It won't be long before the idea catches on here.

And once again, we'll all be treated to that highbrow piece of verse that begins, "Here I sit all broken-hearted..."

[KansDem]

What's next? A "chit to shit?" (nt)

[dana_b]

22. hmmm.... we've got catheters at work

lordy! no way - why don't they just raise their fare one pound - then the passengers will just think it's inflation (or probably won't even motice it) and won't complain over the lack of basic services?

[WolverineDG]

23. Here I sit all broken hearted nt

[rug]

25. How much to have sex?

[marmar]

26. I guess the fee will apply to membership in the Mile High Club too.....

.... and with a charge for the bathroom, fewer people will probably pester you to hurry out.

[rug]

27. I hope they don't post a fee schedule for various acts.

[madmom]

29. When I was young my best friend had 4 little brothers, when they went on family

outings they always took a "pee can", an old coffee can or mason jar. Dad would not stop till they got where they were going.

[jazzjunkysue]

31. Sorry, but someone already wrote that musical.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00005LZR8/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005LZR8?tag=interbroaddat-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B00005LZR8&adid=16R1QGD1X1D8KTB3EBNC&

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. They've more or less admitted it was a publicity stunt, and won't actually happen

The chief executive is well known for trying to get free publicity for the airline by getting into the headlines.

Michael O'Leary, the budget airline's chief executive, revealed today that it is considering coin slots on cubicle doors.

"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 BBC Breakfast.
...
Stephen McNamara from Ryanair said: "Michael makes a lot of this stuff up as he goes along and while this has been discussed internally there are no immediate plans to introduce it."

He added: "Not everyone uses the toilet on board one of our flights but those that do could help to reduce airfares for all passengers. Then again, maybe O'Leary was just taking the piss this morning."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7914542.stm