Budget Travel - Pay toilets on Ryan Air, its serious

I live in Seattle where Boeing makes 737's for Ryanair. On tonites news they say that Ryanair has asked Boeing to look at the possibility of putting credit card readers for psgrs to pay for using the toilet. I know this had been discussed but they are actually up to negotiations about it now. They also said they are discussing eliminating baggage handlers and letting psgrs load their own luggage. I flew Aeroflot yrs ago and you actually walked up the stairs and they had this enourmous holding bin for carryons or hand luggage. I actually thought it was a great idea, but I wouldn't like the pay toilets.

This is another reason for me to avoid Ryanair whenever
possible.

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Obscure2k
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It will not be pretty if you don't have a credit card handy at all times.

Meh, it's a filthy Ryanair plane... Just surreptitiously pee in the galley when the FAs aren't looking...

I have a difficult time believing that health authorities in the countries that Ryan Air operates in wouldn't have something to say about this.

Meh, it's a filthy Ryanair plane... How many Ryanair aircraft have you been on?

How many Ryanair aircraft have you been on?

Exactly 2, which was 2 too many... Any airline that makes WN look good isn't worth the money saved.

Just recently the queen of Spain was in a Ryanair flight to London (in these times of crisis anything helps, you know). I wonder how they'll handle that... :P

one more reason to avoid Ryanair. I already hate their in transparent booking system with tons of surcharges.

For me it always comes down to math.

If a Ryanair flight is $50 cheaper than a competitor, who cares if I have to pay a dollar for the lav? I'm still ahead...

Ryanair CEO: 'We are serious' about a toilet fee (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=67634293.blog)

Oh, how gullible are the media!

That USA Today report references several UK press articles, including one I hadn't heard - charging for sickbags.

They didn't report the other 'news' item, that O'Leary would wipe passengers' bums if they paid him £5 each. (His word, bums. Vernacular for rear end, don't want to get censored here). Now that would be interesting. Imagine 150 or so passengers raising £750 a time using O'Leary's personal service. I would insist on it. :p

Nonsense, of course. The sooner the media and their customers realise that O'Leary is an exhibitionist who wants Ryanair stories published at any cost, no matter how ludicrous or absurd, the sooner we can get on with living our own lives.

Just recently the queen of Spain was in a Ryanair flight to London (in these times of crisis anything helps, you know). I wonder how they'll handle that... :P

Ryanair lands in trouble after using photo of the Queen of Spain (who's a customer) in advert (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1191262/Ryanair-lands-trouble-using-photo-Queen-Spain-whos-customer-advert.html?ITO=1490)

if it was any other airline id be shocked... but ryanair is known to charge for anything extra beyond the cost of safe passage from a to b... and all there flights fly for an average of 1 hour...

i dont get why people see this as unjust and talk of how they are going to defile the plane in an act of revenge for ryanair saving them money...cleaning out airplane septick tanks and refilling water tanks is not cheap, the fuel needed to transport water and sh!t is not cheap either...most airlines have already cut down on the amount of lavs they install as it is....

i dont see the big fuss about pay toilets...allot of countries got em, its the only way to find a toilet youd want to use in mexico or india...if you dont like paying for toilets you can easily avoid flying mediocre airlines...

I heard that you have to prepay toilet usage at time of booking, they will issue one time PIN numbers.

Also they will then sell scratch cards for cash from the duty free trolley at triple the internet price if you did not plan ahead.

Sounds like Ryanair will need the lumps to go with the lesson for the lesson to stick. :rolleyes:

Let's see how much it will cost.

Last time I flyed with them (back in 2007) is fine. But based on so many issues people met I may ask my friend to think twice before he decide to go with Ryanair.

I live in Seattle where Boeing makes 737's for Ryanair. On tonites news they say that Ryanair has asked Boeing to look at the possibility of putting credit card readers for psgrs to pay for using the toilet. I know this had been discussed but they are actually up to negotiations about it now.The sooner the media and their customers realise that O'Leary is an exhibitionist who wants Ryanair stories published at any cost, no matter how ludicrous or absurd, the sooner we can get on with living our own lives.Seems like Boeing may be calling O'Liary's bluff. From the Daily Telegraph 16 June 2009:

The cost of spending a penny? A piddling $3m
... Scott Carson, Boeing's head of commercial planes, decided to lighten the mood at a press conference with revelations of a delicious exchange with the industry's self-appointed funnyman, Michael O'Leary.

Carson said he had called the Ryanair boss to congratulate him on his publicity coup over plans to charge people to use the lavatories on his planes.

It seems O'Leary was cock-a-hoop until Carson announced that Boeing would be adding a $3m surcharge for installing coin-operated doors.

Apparently O'Leary "didn't find it very funny".


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/citydiary/5543609/The-cost-of-spending-a-penny-A-piddling-3m.html