Posted on 07/06/2009 1:29:00 PM PDT by Scythian
Ryanair boss Michael OLeary wants passengers to stand on the budget airlines flights, in a bid to pack in more people and boost profits.
Passengers would pay less to huddle next to what have been described as bar stools, with seatbelts around their waists.
OLeary got the idea from Chinese airline Spring, which put forward similar plans estimating they could pack in up to 50 per cent more passengers and slash costs by 20 per cent.
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I consider it insurance
My luck, I would be standing next to Helen Thomas or Hilary!, except she would be in First Class.
Don’t go and suggest that.....they just might!
Wait. They have bar stools with seat belts?
Yet another reason not to fly.
Think how crammed the overhead compartments will be!
Eventually, they will find a way to get passengers into the overhead compartments.
For a quick flight I would do it, not a long one.
Heck I don’t have enough life insurance as it is, if it did go down at least the wife will make out okay.
All they need to do is scatter some straw and the floor and they could eliminate the need for bathroom space.
Actually it is fine with me just as long as the UK bureacrats are required to travel by the lowest class on these flights.
Already has happened to train travel.
This is the chair I sat in while going from Papeete to Moorea in the mid 90s. There were 4 on the plane and mine was next to the pilot! Thank God is was less than a 20 mile ride.....
If I am just looking to get to point A from point B cheap and fast I could care less myself. Heck considering how much leg room they give you now I would probably be more comfortable standing and holding on than I would sitting in the economy class anyway.
Satire right? I can picture my 86 year old mother standing on a flight from Chicago to ATlanta...
Be glad she isn’t going to Hawaii. :~)
Reminds me of a “Bloom County” cartoon, in which Opus, the penguin, can’t find his seat, only to find that he had been sold the toilet seat. Just as he starts to think the flight may not be too bad, a remarkably obese woman arrives to share the lavatory.
inflation takes on many subtle forms. 10 apartments in a building that was build for one family a hundred years ago, for example.
Won't matter once the person behind you gets airsick
They can cram some people in there too
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