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Airline May Introduce Standing Room Only Section
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Posted on 07/06/2009 1:29:00 PM PDT by Scythian

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary wants passengers to stand on the budget airline’s 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.

O’Leary 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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KEYWORDS: airline; ryanair; standing
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To: r9etb

I consider it insurance


21 posted on 07/06/2009 1:38:21 PM PDT by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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To: r9etb

My luck, I would be standing next to Helen Thomas or Hilary!, except she would be in First Class.


22 posted on 07/06/2009 1:38:28 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Scythian

Don’t go and suggest that.....they just might!


23 posted on 07/06/2009 1:38:35 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Scythian

Wait. They have bar stools with seat belts?


24 posted on 07/06/2009 1:39:03 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Scythian

Yet another reason not to fly.


25 posted on 07/06/2009 1:39:18 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Scythian

Think how crammed the overhead compartments will be!


26 posted on 07/06/2009 1:39:33 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (we also have the duty to avoid prostituting our Catholic identity by appeals to phony dialogue)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Eventually, they will find a way to get passengers into the overhead compartments.


27 posted on 07/06/2009 1:40:09 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Scythian

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.


28 posted on 07/06/2009 1:41:05 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Scythian

29 posted on 07/06/2009 1:41:36 PM PDT by spald
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To: Abathar

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.


30 posted on 07/06/2009 1:44:59 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Leisler

Already has happened to train travel.

31 posted on 07/06/2009 1:46:31 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: JeepInMazar

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.....

32 posted on 07/06/2009 1:49:42 PM PDT by BossLady ("WE are the origin of all coming evil" ~~ Carl Jung~~)
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To: Oldexpat

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.


33 posted on 07/06/2009 1:50:09 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: a fool in paradise

Satire right? I can picture my 86 year old mother standing on a flight from Chicago to ATlanta...


34 posted on 07/06/2009 1:50:12 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Be glad she isn’t going to Hawaii. :~)


35 posted on 07/06/2009 1:51:55 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Scythian

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.


36 posted on 07/06/2009 1:54:49 PM PDT by I-ambush (I didn't think, I never dreamed, that I would be around to see it all come true-McCartney and Wings)
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To: Oldexpat

37 posted on 07/06/2009 1:58:58 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Scythian

inflation takes on many subtle forms. 10 apartments in a building that was build for one family a hundred years ago, for example.


38 posted on 07/06/2009 1:59:06 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: sourcery
What about turbulence? What about flatulence?

Won't matter once the person behind you gets airsick

39 posted on 07/06/2009 2:02:39 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Think how crammed the overhead compartments will be!

They can cram some people in there too

40 posted on 07/06/2009 2:04:29 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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