I can’t quite believe I’ve just read this!
“Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (12th Mar) invited passengers to suggest the airline’s next ancillary revenue idea after Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, confirmed that the company is examining the possibility of passengers paying to use the on board toilets in a drive to keep costs down and lower Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares even further.
This Europe wide competition invites passengers to submit their most ingenious, wacky and creative ideas to Ryanair via the http://www.ryanair.com website to be in with a chance of winning a €1,000 cash prize.
Launching the competition, Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said;
“Ryanair is Europe’s largest low fares airline and we plan to continue to reduce costs and fares by stimulating ancillary revenues. We have always provided passengers with choice, if you don’t want to pay for food – don’t buy it, if you don’t want to pay checked in bag charges – don’t bring checked in bags, if you don’t want to pay handling charges – then just use Visa Electron entirely free of charge.
Since we confirmed that we are considering a toilet charge we have received a huge number of ancillary revenue suggestions from passengers and we want more. We are asking passengers to submit their ideas with the most creative winning €1,000 cash. Some of the best suggests to date are:
· Charging for toilet paper – with O’Leary’s face on it,
· Charging €2.50 to read the safety cards,
· Charging €1 to use oxygen masks,
· Charging €25 to use the emergency exit,
· Charging €50 for bikini clad Cabin Crew.”
Source: Ryanair.com
As a long time supporter of Ryanair, even I’m now starting to think they’re getting a little bit silly although I have to say, I do quite like the idea of O’Leary’s face on a piece of bog roll!
Any thoughts?
Paul
By: tomfellows - 22nd March 2009 at 22:59
I saw a Mail on Sunday travel article today called “How to avoid Mr O’Leary’s £320 sting for the privilege of checking in” which outlined all their add-on costs and charges. Of course this cost would be if you needed baggage, airport check-iin etc but it really is quite staggering and will probably have the effect of making some people think twice about booking with them.
By: steve rowell - 22nd March 2009 at 22:37
That’s because we all ignore you, Dan! :D:p
Paul
I like your sense of humour!!!
By: PMN - 22nd March 2009 at 21:11
I did post this in another thread a few days ago, where it developed no interest.
That’s because we all ignore you, Dan! :D:p
Paul
By: OneLeft - 22nd March 2009 at 21:10
What exactly does their standard fare cover exactly?
Michael O’Leary’s wages!
1L.
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd March 2009 at 20:36
I did post this in another thread a few days ago, where it developed no interest. Oh well, if it’s getting interest now then I suppose it was worth the new thread.
Sounds like just a small publicity stunt to me. I didn’t see it on any news site and only found it on Ryanair’s own news ticker. Strange to see that they don’t take their own business model seriously though.
By: Hand87_5 - 22nd March 2009 at 17:27
At this point FR just charges to get into the plane and about what’s going on once the pax is in the plane.
Why not charge:
-1€ to get out
-2€ to use the stairway
-1€ for opening the door /pax
-5€ for plane clean up
Come on MoL you can do better than that …. :diablo:
By: Skymonster - 22nd March 2009 at 15:25
More cheap rhetoric from Scumbag O’Riley. His airline just keeps getting more irrelevant. My suggestion is every Ryanair passenger pays £1 extra to make MOL go away.
Andy
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March 22, 2009 at 8:58 am