Ryanair serious about charging for toilet use

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Reporting its first annual loss in two decades earlier this week, Ryanair, the largest no-frills carrier in Europe, has confirmed that it will begin charging passengers for the use of toilets on its aircraft.

Michael O’Leary, the controversial and outspoken CEO of the budget airline, said to The Guardian that Ryanair would be asking aircraft manufacturer Boeing to install credit-card readers on toilet locks and that it was considering reconfiguring its 737-800 jets, removing two of the three toilets to make room for six additional seats.

He argued: “We are flying aircraft on an average flight time of one hour around Europe. What the hell do we need three toilets for?”

O’Leary quipped that the research department at Boeing should be able to focus on his toilet door concept in the near future, given that the “war in Iraq and Afghanistan is winding down.”

In a report in The Daily Mail, it was noted that the Irish low-cost airline was implementing a plan to “scrap all of its airport check-in desks” in a few months’ time, and would be levying a charge on passengers for checking themselves in online and printing their own boarding passes. Also according to The Daily Mail report, “new baggage measures, which would see passengers replace baggage handlers to load luggage onto aircraft” have been “under discussion” at carrier, which is becoming well-known for creative cost-cutting measures.

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