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Airlines: No meals, No drinks, No peanuts; Now this...
Topic Started: Feb 27 2009, 06:15 AM (561 Views)
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Low Cost Airline Mulls Charging for Toilet Use

Irish carrier Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, might start charging passengers for using the toilet while flying, chief executive Michael O'Leary said on Friday.

"One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound ($1.43) to spend a penny in future," he told BBC television.

He said this would not inconvenience passengers travelling without cash.

"I don't think there is anybody in history that has got on board a Ryanair aircraft with less than a pound," he added.

O'Leary has a reputation as a cost cutter, expanding Ryanair by offering low headline fares and charging extra for items such as additional luggage.

Last week, Ryanair announced it was to shut all check-in desks at airports and have passengers check in online instead.

"We're all about finding ways of raising discretionary revenue so we can keep lowering the cost of air travel," he said.
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Doesn't bother me at all. I always pee in the isle. :D
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If that happened on a flight I was on, particularly a long one, I'd pay up just so's I could graffiti the bathroom.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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I wonder when he will get around to cutting the pilots.
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Feb 27 2009, 06:22 AM
I wonder when he will get around to cutting the pilots.
I've been calling that for years now. Remote piloting of commercial aircraft, that is.
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I'm starting to see a business opportunity here...

Bottled air at the boarding gate. :D
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"One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound ($1.43) to spend a penny in future," he told BBC television.

Can someone please explain that paragraph? Is there a word or two missing?
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That sentence makes no sense....and neither does the concept f coin-op bathrooms on airlines. Bo-o-ogus!!

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Feb 27 2009, 06:43 AM
"One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound ($1.43) to spend a penny in future," he told BBC television.

Can someone please explain that paragraph? Is there a word or two missing?
'spend a penny' means go pee, in Brit talk.
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Coin-op public johns were common place when I was in Europe, so I wouldn't be surprised.

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Feb 27 2009, 06:26 AM
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Feb 27 2009, 06:22 AM
I wonder when he will get around to cutting the pilots.
I've been calling that for years now. Remote piloting of commercial aircraft, that is.
Not me. If something goes wrong in a jet I'm on, I want the pilots ass on the line as well as mine.

Sorry, no - "Oh gosh, the plane I'm flying from here in my office just lost hydraulics. What a bummer. Lemme see if I can figure out what to do on my way to Starbucks" - for me.
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Feb 27 2009, 08:23 AM
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Feb 27 2009, 06:26 AM
JBryan
Feb 27 2009, 06:22 AM
I wonder when he will get around to cutting the pilots.
I've been calling that for years now. Remote piloting of commercial aircraft, that is.
Not me. If something goes wrong in a jet I'm on, I want the pilots ass on the line as well as mine.

Sorry, no - "Oh gosh, the plane I'm flying from here in my office just lost hydraulics. What a bummer. Lemme see if I can figure out what to do on my way to Starbucks" - for me.
Oh, I didn't say that I like the idea. Just that that's what I think it'll eventually come to.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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You will never ever find me on a remotely piloted aircraft.

I'll be in Florida next month visiting my younger brother. Middle brother wanted me to fly down with him. I said NOPE, I'll drive and meet you there. He called me a cheap bastard that wouldn't part with a buck.

I told him it had nothing to do with money. I hate dealing with the bull$hit the minute you walk into a terminal. Cattle get better treatment. Long lines, stripping at the metal detectors and now this body scan imaging bull$hit. No thanks... I'll drive. Florida is accessible by land.

My only exception is if a destination has a large body of water between me and it.
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sue
Feb 27 2009, 08:05 AM
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Feb 27 2009, 06:43 AM
"One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound ($1.43) to spend a penny in future," he told BBC television.

Can someone please explain that paragraph? Is there a word or two missing?
'spend a penny' means go pee, in Brit talk.
Thanks, sue. I was reading that sentence over and over, and couldn't figure it out. :lol2:
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The things you learn reading TNCR. I didn't know what the phrase meant either.

Oops..brb... gotta spend a penny... :D
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He might have said people might actually have to spend a pound ($1.43) to see a man about a horse.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

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"Spend a penny"

As was stated, coin op toilets were common - you put a penny into a slot to get into the toilet stall. Of course this was sexist as the lads didn't have to pay for the stand up trough. Coin toilet stalls also went hand in hand with some horrible germ killing (and no doubt cancer causing) chemical impregnated wax paper toilet paper (bog roll), which worked well as tracing paper in case your ever stuck for some. I'll never forget the first time I sent my wife into a public lavy in Calendar, and the look on her face when she came out after experiencing the wax paper toilet paper.

Those were also the days when the water tank was situated 5 feet above the toilet, with a chain hanging from the tank to activate the flush.

Also common when I was a Uni student were coin operated electricity meters in flats. Many was the cold night we'd retire to someone's flat for a cuppa char after the pub, and had to have a whip round to secure some change to feed the meter so we could turn the 1 bar electric fire on to get some heat., not too mention run the electric kettle.
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Gah.
Having to pay-to-pee on a plane.
Figures.
They'll tax the TP, flush button & tap next.
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Feb 27 2009, 08:35 AM
You will never ever find me on a remotely piloted aircraft.

I'll be in Florida next month visiting my younger brother. Middle brother wanted me to fly down with him. I said NOPE, I'll drive and meet you there. He called me a cheap bastard that wouldn't part with a buck.

I told him it had nothing to do with money. I hate dealing with the bull$hit the minute you walk into a terminal. Cattle get better treatment. Long lines, stripping at the metal detectors and now this body scan imaging bull$hit. No thanks... I'll drive. Florida is accessible by land.

My only exception is if a destination has a large body of water between me and it.
And that only if I can't find a reasonable cabin on a ship.

The problem with air travel is you have no sense of having made a journey. You get on theplane, take a nap and you're there. I did it for a lot of years and do not miss it one little bit. Especially now. I'm flying to Mexico in April and am not looking forward to it AT ALL.
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blondie
Feb 27 2009, 09:08 AM
Gah.
Having to pay-to-pee on a plane.
Figures.
They'll tax the TP, flush button & tap next.
Yep, it's a pay-go system indeed. :hat:

However, it's more of a pay-before-you-go rather than a pay-as-you-go, which is just as well really if it must be done this way.

I just hope they don't hear of how we handle trash here. It's based on volume.
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Feb 27 2009, 09:17 AM
Yep, it's a pay-go system indeed. :hat:
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I was in London a few years ago, and there was a 'self cleaning' public washroom. It had an elevator style door, and as soon as you entered, a timer would start counting down from 20 minutes. I don't know what would happen if you were in there more than 20 minutes.

Between uses, it would lock down for 1 minute of cleaning.
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Explainez vous s.v.p. :
Did it clean your juicy bits or the bowl?
[I'm thinking that might be worth the price :leaving: :D ]
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It sounds like both if you hang out too long.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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