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Minx
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 Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject: Ryanair charging for use of in-flight toilets? |
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I'm a great fan of Ryanair - we use them a lot, and if you abandon any hopes of obtaining customer service, what you get is a slick, fast, no frills but essentially cheap commuter service. The planes (leased) are reasonably new, and they try very hard to do things to schedule, hence the fan-fare they play on-board whenever a flight arrives ahead of time.
But this is carrying it a bit too far! Coin operated loos! As someone said, if they start charging people to go to the toilet, they may start losing out on the sales of beverages. Hopefully they will think again. 
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: Ryanair charging for use of in-flight toilets? |
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| Minx wrote: | | But this is carrying it a bit too far! Coin operated loos! As someone said, if they start charging people to go to the toilet, they may start losing out on the sales of beverages. Hopefully they will think again. |
People will bring bottles to pee in to save £1. It wont be pretty. 
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Minx
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Ah well, it will help to pass the time. 
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe they have shares in those leak proof incontinence pants? |
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colby
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Ryanair has refuted this whole suggestion tonight on Sky News. However, I wouldn't put it past them at all. Of all the airlines I use during the course of a year Ryanair is by far the worst. |
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iwarburton
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This has to be a gift for newspaper cartoonists.
Ian. |
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mark occomore
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| They charge next to nothing for a seat. There is an extra charge for baggage, taxes, food, use of mobile phone connection. Now you will be charged to spend a penny. Are the guys on the ground having to clean out the loos on low pay? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: Ryanair charging for use of in-flight toilets? |
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| Minx wrote: | | The planes (leased) are reasonably new, |
Their aircraft arrive brand new. There have been times when Ryanair seemingly took delivery of a new Boeing 737 every few days. The newest are only a week or two old.
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Minx
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One of the rare Ryanair failures for us involved a fight from Valencia to Stansted. Started off with someone having forgotten to file a flight plan back in Ireland, so we were advised of a 30 minute delay (whilst already on board.). Then the captain opened his cabin window to talk to the ground crew and it wouldn't close, so (wait for it!) they had to send off for an engineer (presumably from the leasing agent) to come and fix it. The bad news was, the engineer was coming from Milan. The good news was, his flight had just left! So we languished on the tarmac from 9.30pm to 1.,30 am, at which point the engineer arrived, took 3 mins to fix the problem, and we were on our way. As I said, if you abandon customer service expectations, you get along just fine!
(I think we paid about 20 euros for the flight though) 
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colby
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| mark occomore wrote: | | They charge next to nothing for a seat. |
Not always. I've flown Luton to Dublin for 99p before, but the fares are always loaded. And you only the cheap seats (quite rightly) if you book very early. I've also flown to Dublin at a cost of £69 - which proves the point.
And not all the planes are new either - some of their 737s are rickety old bangers that rattle like hell when they hit the tarmac. I travelled on one in which the seat next to me was ripped to shreds but the cabin crew didn't seem to care.
I really do not like Ryanair and I no longer use them. |
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