Need the loo, pay £1 on Ryanair!

How very appropriate… One I might read, I think!

On to the point, I think RYR have gone a bit too far with this latest free-publicity media gag. In the queue for both flights I overheard several people saying “Did you know they’re going to start charging for the toilet now?” , “My son/mum/friend flew Ryanair last week and had to pay for the toilet!”, “If they do start charging then that’s the final straw, I won’t be flying them again”

As I said before, it was his way of diverting people’s attention from the REAL issue he’s trying to implement:

I suspect its just the Irish harp-playing devil being himself… Interviewed about getting rid of check-in desks and baggage fees, he raises something even more contravertial. So what are people talking about now? Not the checkin desks and baggage charges, but paying to use the loos. And whilst everyone is getting outraged about the loos, the checkin desks and baggage fees – the REAL issue – just subsides into nothingness.

I’m feeling it hasn’t quite had the desired effect?

So all he now has to do is go on telly again in the not too distant future and say “We’ve decided not to charge to use the bogs” and the controversy goes away… But by then everyone has, as I said, forgotten that he’s going to do away with check-in desks and charge even more for checked bags.

I hate the man, I hate the airline, and I hate what they’ve done to the airline industry. But I have to admit he’s clever – cleverer than many of his passengers, and that’s the problem! Chalk another one up to the Irish harp-playing devil!

Andy

Sorry to bring this one back up, just thought I’d add my experience from today.

I flew down to Marseille for the day. Great flights and very professional/attentive Marseille based French crew. For the first time in a long while the crew actually walked up and down the cabin all flight (even after selling everything) making sure pax were ok (anyone else noticed that crew from the smallers bases, MRS, HHN, CIA etc seem much more professional and not such a run-of-the-mill service you get from STN/DUB based crews?).

On to the point, I think RYR have gone a bit too far with this latest free-publicity media gag. In the queue for both flights I overheard several people saying “Did you know they’re going to start charging for the toilet now?” , “My son/mum/friend flew Ryanair last week and had to pay for the toilet!”, “If they do start charging then that’s the final straw, I won’t be flying them again”.

It’s pretty much confirmed that Ryanair’s comments were false and were meant just to get people talking, but I’m feeling it hasn’t quite had the desired effect?

There is no legal requirement for there to be toilets on aeroplanes. Thus, hyman rights don’t come into it.

Andy

Does that apply to long-haul flights as well…?
(I’ll be :eek:/:mad: if it does!)

I’ve flown with them before and would do again. I do appreciate only having to pay for what I use and am glad I can only pay the minimum amount. As for loo’s on toilets….I wouldn’t like to think about the situation if I really needed and didn’t have change/any money at all….but perhaps if they did introduce it the majority of people would come prepared for the flights, with change?

Also, how many unique pay-per-use services do Ryanair have over, say, easyJet? Do easyJet not have a lot of fee-related services also? Perhaps easyJet and other Loco’s will adopt the ‘no check in desks’ approach also. It seems that Ryanair adopt all these polices and get all the media attention for them, but other Loco’s sometimes eventually follow suit anyway.

What a monumental PR coup for the wicked Irishman. How many publics have seen and heard all this hullabaloo and picked out the repetitive mantra “Ryanair” and “lowering fares”. Got to give the grasping b@stard his due he can work the PR trick. It’s like your council tax November = significant rise, December = 12-15%, January- February= 13%, March = 7% April = phew only 7% we did quite well out of that. It is nothing to do with loo charges it is about getting everyone to look away while he punishes those passengers without internet ( the elderly) by scrapping check in desks ( reduction in staff as well) and tightens the thumb screws on passengers with baggage ( cabin ) and luggage ( hold). He must at this moment be trying desperately to find some revenue use for all that empty space under the floors. Perhaps individual pee tubes at a £1 per shot and extra seats where the loos used to be.
Not catch me with an RYR flight number in my log book.
Be lucky
David

Or well if they want £1, i guess they will want they a/c coming in stinking of P*ss.

What happens if you’ve ‘misplaced’ your wallet and you’re very very desperate…

You wet/soil yourself. And there is no doubt going to be an astronomical ‘cleaning fee’ associated with this as well.

There is no legal requirement for there to be toilets on aeroplanes.

I doubt It will stay that way if Ryanair try to go ahead with this.

What happens if you’ve ‘misplaced’ your wallet and you’re very very desperate…

Sounds like a load of sh*t to me!!!

Sounds like a load of sh*t to me!!!

there has got to be some ‘human rights’ issue attached to this

There is no legal requirement for there to be toilets on aeroplanes. Thus, hyman rights don’t come into it.

Andy

Indeed but if you REALLY had to go I’m sure you could find somewhere else seeing as you aren’t 30,000ft above! things are slightly different then!

Don’t get me wrong… I don’t think anyone should ever have to pay to use any toilet so long as they leave it as they found it. They’re not going to roll this out – they have a bad enough name among the elderly and disabled community as it is

The online Newspaper “Daily Mash” tells this story correctly.

Not sure about this… they get away with charging 30p to use the toilets at Liverpool street station…

Indeed but if you REALLY had to go I’m sure you could find somewhere else seeing as you aren’t 30,000ft above! things are slightly different then!

Interesting how he says…

…how is this stunt going to lower the cost of air travel?:confused:

Surely if it is to be believed, there has got to be some ‘human rights’ issue attached to this as they would not be able to get away with charging people to use the toliet.

Not sure about this… they get away with charging 30p to use the toilets at Liverpool street station…

He isn’t interested in lowering the cost of air travel. He’s interested in lowering the headline price, so he can get more punters to buy tickets. Then, once he has their bums on his seats, he’ll squeeze every extra penny out of his newly captive customers he can.

Situation normal.

So, he lowers the headline price and lets you choose what else you pay for?? Where as those heroes at BA just charge more for the headline price and give you it all for free, good on them, except, hold on, their headline price is more than the combined cost of a seat, baggage, check-in and a cup of tea onboard the LCCs…..:eek::eek:

It’s funny, this forum is full of people hailing back to the glory days of flying, when prices were high, but service was great, and some need to move forward and get with the times.

When you buy a car you’d rather choose your own spec, and when you buy a computer these days you can often pick and choose the spec, why shouldn’t flying be the same….you pay a basic price and then choose what you want on top? That way, if you want everything, you can pay the full price the same as BA, but if you don’t think you’ll want a cup of tea on board then save your money.

I also think it’s interesting that everybody talks about how scandalously expensive the onboard tea is, and how great the traditional airlines are at providing this for free, but often, the tea that you pay for lasts more than one sip (honestly, those airline cups don’t even touch the sides of my big mouth and it’s all gone in one go!) and is often better because you get the bag so it’s a fresh cup of tea, not one that has been trailed from front to back before it gets to you, maybe with more water poured on top to dilute it half way through!

I don’t want to pay to use the loo on board, I’d be as p*ssed off as the next man on here, but actually I’m really not bothered about a cup of tea for “free” because when travelling on business I like my Costa tea and almond croissant of a morning, so why should I be charged for the privelage of a sipful of rubbish?

Once again on the back of one (possibly) throw-away comment during an interview, Mikey the pikey gets just what he wants, free publicity/advertising. I dread to think how many times this has been repeated today in various news reports on just about every TV, Radio and Satellite channel, the tw@t must be laughing his head off…

-Dazza