OT: Standing to be introduced on Ryanair?
 

Just watching O'leary being interviewed on sky news and he says, he is going to remove the last 6 rows of seats to introduce a standing area to save cut flight costs even more.

He says, people stand on tube, trains, buses, etc... so why not on a 1 hour flight.

Views?

Yes. Is it really worth starting an irrelevant new thread on a man who thrives on any kind of publicity? :(

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)

Views?

1) It's 6th July not April 1st
2) he's a PR genius
3) this board's obsession with Ryanair is getting ridiculous

Is there no end to the drivel this man will spout to get free publicity? Like the 'charging for toilets' thing, this is rubbish...

And back OT, bit difficult to compare planes with tubes, buses, etc. - I suspect that if my local bus could travel at 400+mph and climb up to 30,000 feet, then I wouldn't be allowed to stand up on that either.

I have seen people standing on Royal Air Maroc a few times evan at take off!

Maybe this will be the next innovation at Ryanair:
http://www.the-rocketman.com/images/...-Wing-Walk.jpg

Wow, a prickly response.

I'm certainly not a fan of the man, but if sky news give it the credence of debate, should it not be discussed seriously here.

There's no way the CAA will allow an airline to fly with standing pax. End of story?

Yes. ;)

Already in operation in China?

http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/2009/...y-section.html

:eek: Nice!

No, and particularly not if it has been on Sky News.

Too bad not all flights of ryanair is under the juristriction of CAA! they are irish

No, this is the BA Forum - not the Ryanair one. Put it in the "Other European Frequent Flyer programs". Like others I'm tired of hearing about this nasty man :rolleyes:

If FT members choose not to read other forums then that's their business, but increasingly the BA Forum is becoming one for every UK low cost carrier and it shouldn't be. Sorry

I think you'll find that if an airline wishes to operate into and out of the UK have to comply with CAA regulations. Sure, not all FR flights fly to/from the UK, but enough do (some would say too many ;) )