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Ryanair to make passengers stand - Telegraph

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.

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.

beeker

If the ticket was cheaper to stand and not have a seat belt, people would buy it.

elcid79

Airline May Introduce Standing Room Only Section - Travel - FOXNews.com


They only thing that I can say is, wow ryan air wow..

mmaviator

I'm sure people will fly on these planes. could you imagine hitting turbulence and a domino type of situation happens. thinking of this is giving me heart burn and some other things I can't say.

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Yeah, apparently managers at one of the Chinese airlines have been researching it for a year or so and their Ryanair counterparts thought it was a great idea...

I'm glad Ryanair didn't implement their 'coin operated' airplane restrooms but they might do it one day anyways...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html?ITO=1490

stoki

ATW Daily News

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary found himself in the headlines again yesterday after telling Sky News "We might take out the last five or six rows [of seats] and say to passengers, 'Do you want to stand up? If you do, you can travel for free'."


O'Leary said he has asked Boeing to look at converting or producing aircraft with "vertical seating" and asked, "Why is this any different to what happens on trains where you see thousands of people who cannot get a seat standing in the aisles?"


A spokesperson confirmed to Agence France Presse that Ryanair and Boeing are in discussions "in relation to adapting the aircraft to allow people to travel in vertical seating." They "wouldn't be fully standing. They would have something like a stool to lean on or to sit on." The same spokesperson told the Daily Mail, "It's really early days but we're looking at a 20%-30% increase in passengers on commuter routes."


Ryanair has not yet sought approval from aviation authorities. It credited Shanghai-based LCC Spring Airlines for the idea. A Spring spokesperson reportedly told China Central Television that it plans to submit its plan to regulators this year and that "it's just like bar stools. The safety belt is the most important thing. It will still be fastened around the waist." Spring President Wang Zhenghua said the country's Vice Premier, Zhang Dejiang, "suggested that for a lower price, passengers should be able to get on a plane like catching a bus, with no seat, no luggage consignment, no food, no water, but very convenient."


Separately, Ryanair last week announced it will open its 33rd base at Porto in September with two based aircraft and new service to Basel, Eindhoven, St. Etienne and Tours. It currently serves 12 destinations from the airport and will offer 50 weekly flights this fall. It expects to carry 1.5 million passengers through OPO per year. It also added a third and fourth 737-800 to its Bristol base and launched 11 new routes Friday. New destinations comprise Limoges, Toulon, Montpellier and Perpignan, Trieste, Rimini, Cagliari, Malta, Alicante, Barcelona Reus and Seville.


The LCC carried 5.8 million passengers in June, up 13% from the year-ago month. Load factor rose 1 point to 82%.
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For those who don't know Ryanair is a Irish LCC which operates and has bases throughout Europe.

They look to cut costs everywhere imaginably possible to lower fares.

Treat their pilots like sh!t.

acl65pilot

Well actually he was not the first. An airline in China proposed this a week or two ago.

buzzpat

Pretty soon, we'll be paying our pax to fly on us. Wait,......, maybe we already are.

deltabound

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary says a lot of things, like charging for in-flight restroom use and no checked bags allowed. Oh, then there's the not-for-mixed company suggestion he made regarding some extra "services" that should be offered to some male passengers.

The man knows how to generate free press, and that's a fact.

Jack Bauer

He's a moron and from a pilots perspective guys like this only stand to prostitute our profession more.