European budget airline Ryanair has apparently been mulling over the possibility of a
"fat tax" following the results of an online poll in which the airline asked passengers to come up with a winning "cost reduction" idea. Ryanair has been known in the past to use things like this as free publicity. For those who are interested, the results are as follows:
- 29% - Excess fees for very overweight passengers
- 25% - €1 for toilet paper – with O’Leary’s face on it
- 24% - €3 to smoke in a converted toilet cubicle
- 14% - Annual subscription to access Ryanair.com
- 8% - €2 “corkage” fee for passengers who bring their own food onboard
photo by wicho
2 comments:
Just don't fly Ryanair unless it is a last resort. They are dishonest and have every device they can think of to extract more money from you - even run their own lotto sales on board. They don't advertise excess baggage rates and a simple thing like a can of drink was so small that it would not quench a Leprechauns thirst - that it was tiny was not in menu.
Unhappy staff - got one hostess who smiled. The rest gave the appearance total disatisfaction with their lot in life - felt like we were cattle being herded.
Very unhappy customers who received the computer response - 'please seek assistance'..... there was none and the clock was ticking down for the flight departure. The solution was to pay a lot of money
The excess baggage is a form of extortion. It cost about 1 UK pound per kilo for the ticket - but excess baggage is 15 UK pounds per kilo.
Not in their interests to have e-tickets as they charge 20 UK Pounds to print a boarding pass. Travellers often carry laptops - but seldom printers.
They got one flight out of us - but not in contention for the other 5 flights we will do while in the UK and Europe.
We see the smiling face of the CEO - pity his staff can't feel as buoyant and foster better customer relations.
There are better cheap airlines about.
Down Under - but no one like to feel ripped off.
I would expect a whole industry to pop up around RyanAir -
Over the counter meds to supress need to use the bathroom
Drinks sold in carry on friendly sizes
Luggage lightening services (unclear how)
In any case, do not pack guidebooks - us an Online Travel Guide
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