so much for safety...
Posted on 07/06/2009 5:03:57 AM PDT by shove_it
Ryanair is considering proposals to make some of its customers stand during flights. Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, plans to make some passengers stand.
The low-cost airline would charge passengers less on "bar stools" with seat belts around their waists. Michael O'Leary, the chief executive, has already held talks with US plane manufacturer Boeing about designing an aircraft with standing room. He is now seeking approval from the Irish Aviation Authority before ordering a new fleet of carriers, according to The Sun. A Ryanair spokesman told the newspaper: "If they approve it, we'll be doing it." Mr O'Leary is reported to have got the idea from the Chinese airline Spring, which has put forward similar plans. It estimates space could be made for up to 50 per cent more passengers and costs could be cut by 20 per cent.
It is not the first time Ryanair has come up with a controversial proposal for cutting costs. Earlier this year Mr O'Leary suggested passengers could be charged £1 to use the on-board lavatories. In an interview on BBC television he said that the low-cost airline was looking at the possibility of installing a coin slot on the lavatory door so that "people might actually have to spend a pound to spend a penny." Mr O'Leary also considered introducing a "fat tax" for overweight passengers.
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How much for hanging on to the wing!
They got the idea from the Chinese.
Wow! More legroom!
Why not install webb seating like they have in military troop carriers. If it’s good enough for the troops...
Cheaper? You can already fly from London to just about anywhere in Europe for 4 pounds one way on Ryanair.
Soon the passengers will be cleaning the toilets too!
Web seats. Now you can get two fatties on either side and the metal bar under your butt.
Hmmmm...
I don’t see how they will pass the mandatory passenger-protection limits using belted bar stools.
I already stand during most of the 14 hour flights back and forth to Korea.
Shuttle flights shouldn’t be a problem.
Personally, I think that they got it right in “The Fifth Element.”
Simply put people in a tube, sedate them, and then put them in the cargo hold. As a plus, you could put their luggage in with them (imagine the lack of problems of a passenger arriving at a different location than their luggage), and bill them for their travel by the pound!
Mark
Why don’t they build compartments like mail slots. You could take a sleeping pill and slide into your slot and they could wake you when you land. Different sizes for different sized people. Fatties would pay the most.
Air travel has become disgusting and I don’t plan on ever getting on an airplane again so I don’t care what they do.
Someone on a bar stool is not standing, as the headline misstates.
Still, this is stupid. It just decreases the chances of survival in a crash.
This is not the way to save money.
lemme guess - they’ re the ones with the gate with the giant shoe horn?
so much for safety...
Thank God I have my own plane (Beech Bonanza). I always fly myself whenever possible.
what are the chances of surviving a crash now??? 2%? less?
Now, if they could just freeze-dry the people before the flight, they could really pack them it.
Remember the Bob Newhard routine about the Grace L Fergeson Airline and Storm Door Company?
Ah a Beech Bonanza... AKA “The V Tailed Doctor Killer” (8^)
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