Welcome aboard Ryanair, please stay standing

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The budget carrier Ryanair have come up with another brainwave in their main task of saving and earning more money. The latest venture by the firm is to ask Boeing about the possibilities of making an aircraft that is predominately standing. Travellers would be seated on stalls for landing and take off, a scheme they say could increase the numbers on planes by about 30 per cent.

They are not the only airline to come with the idea though. Chinese carrier Spring is also putting a similar project together for passengers.

“Passengers wouldn’t be fully standing, they would have something like a stool to lean on or to sit on,” said a spokesman, Stephen McNamara for Ryanair. Safety regulations would not be broken either as the stalls that would be installed are equipped with lap belt like a normal seat.

This is not foreign ground for Ryanair though and in the past they have sanctioned some other ideas that would scare first class travellers to death. Some of those changes have been to charge passengers onboard the aircraft for using the loo, which was more than spending a penny. Another idea in the pipeline is to ask all customers with luggage for the hold, to carry it all the way to the aircraft themselves. Most recently however, they have done away with some check-in desk and instead passengers should print their boarding pass at home before travelling to the airport.

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