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Ryanair hikes luggage charges for summer (and passengers WILL have to pay to use the toilet too)


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Last updated at 1:50 AM on 07th April 2010

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New charges: The £15 fee for checked-in bags will be raised to £20 for the summer (file photo)

Ryanair is taking no-frills flights to new heights - by charging for lavatories.
All onboard toilets will become coin-operated, forcing passengers to pay £1 or one euro.
The Irish airline is also cutting the number of loos, meaning there may be only one on planes carrying 189 passengers.
It already charges customers to check in luggage, for online check-in, for onboard snacks and for credit card payments.
Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said: 'By charging for the toilets we are hoping to change passenger behaviour so that they use the bathroom before or after the flight.
'That will enable us to remove two out of three of the toilets and make way for at least six extra seats.'
The airline mooted the idea of toilet charges last year but backtracked after criticism.
It also emerged yesterday that its single bag check-in charge will rise from £15 to £20 during the summer holidays.

The £15 fee for checked-in bags will be in operation again from September.

Mr McNamara said: 'We are determined to incentivise passengers to travel light this summer by increasing our checked-in baggage fees for the months of July and August only.

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'Over 70 per cent of all Ryanair passengers will be unaffected by these changes because they travel with no checked-in bags.'

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Rochelle Turner, head of research for Which? magazine, said: 'Ryanair might claim that they are incentivising people to travel light but we think it is more a case of penalising those families who can only go away on holiday during this time.
'Flying with Ryanair is not as cheap as it first appears and we would advise passengers to factor in these extra costs when choosing who to fly with.'
Mr O'Leary first suggested the toilet charges last year but the budget carrier appeared to backtrack on the idea.

However, the airline has confirmed its plans in its latest in-flight magazine, although Mr McNamara said the charges would not be coming in this summer.

Sky high prices: Snacks on no-frills flights can cost nearly quadruple what they would cost in the supermarket

The confirmation of further charges on board comes just as a new survey has shown that low-cost carriers are charging sky-high prices for food and drink.
Passengers pay 374 per cent more for snacks on flights than they would at the supermarket, according to statistics from price comparison site travelsupermarket.com.

When asked about the price of food on board Ryanair aircraft, Mr McNamara said: 'I would like to know how much Tesco are charging for flights from Barcelona to London.'


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A buck-and-a-half to take a squirt- outrageous- it's not like you're adding any additional weight to the plane.

They'll probably start serving (selling) expired, diarrhea-inducing snacks to up their profit margin.

Piss in plastic cup and give it the hosty!

Originally Posted by UpTooYou

Piss in plastic cup and give it the hosty!

See- it's original thinkers like you who find ways to beat the system- great idea.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Originally Posted by UpTooYou

Piss in plastic cup and give it the hosty!

See- it's original thinkers like you who find ways to beat the system- great idea.

Deposit the contents on the seat as you leave the kite!

Originally Posted by UpTooYou

Piss in plastic cup and give it the hosty!

Get her to hold it for you

Originally Posted by FarangRed

Originally Posted by UpTooYou

Piss in plastic cup and give it the hosty!

Get her to hold it for you

She might even give it a shake for a pound fifty.

^

guaranteed, there will be lots of piss filled water bottles to clear up when the planes land.

charging to use the toilets is an in your face challenge to a certain type of passenger to find a way round paying this ridiculous charge.

Airline ridership down, and airlines are hurting.

More prices hikes.

^ Or a lot of wet pockets in the backs of seats!

189 passengers and 1 loo!

They'll be crapping themselves in the aisles!

Wonder if the crew will be made to pay??

Originally Posted by UpTooYou

Piss in plastic cup and give it the hosty!

Hi, my apple juice seems to have gone off. Give it a taste will ya luv.

Welcome to the cheap seats

I hope they anger enough people that it hurts their business. Raising fares may be needed and appropriate, but free restrooms should be mandated by law if necessary. I would not fly this airline as a matter of principal.

So what Irish are dirty anyway and probably comfortable shitting and pissing themselves in-flight.

Originally Posted by Ghandi

So what Irish are dirty anyway and probably comfortable shitting and pissing themselves in-flight.

Originally Posted by hunter

Originally Posted by Ghandi

So what Irish are dirty anyway and probably comfortable shitting and pissing themselves in-flight.

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Originally Posted by Ghandi

So what Irish are dirty anyway and probably comfortable shitting and pissing themselves in-flight.

Right up there with many French and English I've smelled.

I've used ryanair to fly from my local airport in UK to Girona, Spain a dozen or so times. Fares are often around 50 quid including taxes etc. BA usually be 3 or 4 times that plus 4X the cost of parking at Heathrow. At busy times when Ryanair were charging 150 quid - BA were looking at 500+.
Ryanair service is shit, but you get what you pay for. When you see the typical Ryanair passenger it surprises me they can even be arsed to walk to the loo for a piss when it's free. There will be alot of pissing in bottles.

So passenger who didn't bring the right coins for the bog asks the Trolley Dolly for change "sorry sir, I have no change left" , passenger "can you let me in and I'll pay you when we get to the airport" Trolly Dolly- "sorry luv, what do you think this is, the P&O line"?

well, they could also charge for changing to the toilette coins and for a upper place on the toilet's waiting list and for the paper, the light, washing hands, flushing calculated by the weight of your...and finally for reopening the toilette's door.

yes sir, that makes 13,50

This is just NOT taking the piss...

Originally Posted by mr Fred

This is of course a total bollocks story.
They just let out a load of crap every couple of months, the press lap it up so the airline get a pile of free publicity.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Michael O Leary clearly reads Wilde.

==>>>>>> Yes!!

Smart move Ryanair. Can't beat the free press.

I guess the savings to Ryanair would be: Less people use the loo because more go before getting on the plane, and some just save it for arrival. That means 1 loo can be cut, and a seat placed there, or two. Small change from those who do use the toilet.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind this very much as a passenger - I rarely use the plane's toilet on short flights, I mean do you really need to go inside a 2 hour window? Ryanair doesn't do international. And if the need arose, I'd pay a buck no problem.

On the other hand, this move may limit on board beverage sales.