Thread: Ryanair to sell £5 tickets for standing-room only flights

Actually idiot brain O'Leary isn't likely to get his way, already there are safety concerns and from what I can gather they are not likely to allow the airline to do this.

Tend to stand up most of the time in long haul, the seats are so small...

but especially if unfortunate enough to be sitting next to an overweight bloke with stinking breath and armpits en-route from Heathrow to Bangkok.

12 hours is a long time. Horrible, he kept leering at the hostesses. And grunting.

He smelt like onions and rotting seafood.

At one point he smiled and introduced himself. A mouth full of yellow teeth, and that smell.

He said he was headed for Pattaya.

Originally Posted by teddy

Originally Posted by WujouMao

The Irish are just fracking daft.

How do you confuse an Irishman?

Show him two shovels and tell him to take his pick.

or put him in a barrel and tell him to pee in the corner

any idea as to why my post was deleted?

Don't you dare say its cos i said a joke that might upset the Irish, cos this forum take the piss out of the Americans something cronic.

We Brits have the same humour, so its hardly going to cause offense.

Now I understand. Someone is grooming TD for sale. Keep in down guys!!!

yea that was my reply to the antique irish jo
shouldn't have upset anyone .
i'd print it again but wot de fook .

"A Ryanair spokesman said that Boeing had been consulted over refitting the planes and that safety testing will take place over the next year. However, Boeing, manufacturer of Ryanair's fleet of 737 narrow-bodied jets, said it’s ruling out the concept.
“We are not considering standing-only accommodations, nor do we have any plans to do so,” spokesman Nick West told the BBC. “Among other things, stringent regulatory requirements — including seats capable of withstanding a force of 16 Gs — pretty much preclude such an arrangement.”
In aviation lingo, 16 Gs means 16 times the force of gravity. This means the standing seats — in which the passenger would have a higher centre of gravity than if he was sitting — must be strongly secured so they wouldn’t fold and topple in the event of a crash.
And stronger seats means heavier seats, which means heavier planes, which means more fuel, which, of course, means more cost — the last thing a no-frills airline like Ryanair wants, industry observers have noted."

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

So, I told him that if he was so smart, to translate your post

I hope your son is over 18

A trial customer is very pleased with the new arrangement:

At least there's little risk of whiplash

Originally Posted by FailSafe

This is it, apparently- kind of like a stand-up roller coaster 'seat':

Turn those around to face backward and you have a vastly safer passenger restraint than those seats that break legs.

Looks like FAA needs to change definition of seat belt to "body restraint."

How about flights in shifts,

Sit, shit, stand, dine and recline ..in allotted periods.

I stand up most of the flight anyway and would certainly appreciate such a service.

Originally Posted by Michael

an overweight bloke with stinking breath and armpits en-route from Heathrow to Bangkok.

He smelt like onions and rotting seafood.

At one point he smiled and introduced himself. A mouth full of yellow teeth, and that smell.

In Pattaya he will be called 'Hansum Man'