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Ryanair and pay toilets on airplanes: an update

March 17, 9:53 AMAlbuquerque Travel ExaminerNeala Schwartzberg
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     A possible income source - photo by Ryanair

How Far Would You Go for Cheap Airfares?

They weren't kidding. And they are considering additional ways to increase revenue.

 

Here's what they are now saying:
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (12th Mar) invited passengers to suggest the airline’s next ancillary revenue idea after Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, confirmed that the company is examining the possibility of passengers paying to use the on board toilets in a drive to keep costs down and lower Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares even further.

So, you might indeed have to "pay to pee" but they now appear to think what-the-heck -- perhaps folks will come up with other equally ridiculous notions that they can put into effect.

Want to participate in the contest: Apparently it's only open to folks in Europe.

This Europe wide competition invites passengers to submit their most ingenious, wacky and creative ideas to Ryanair via the www.ryanair.com website to be in with a chance of winning a €1,000 cash prize.

And the charming description is: Launching the competition, Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said;

“Ryanair is Europe’s largest low fares airline and we plan to continue to reduce costs and fares by stimulating ancillary revenues. We have always provided passengers with choice, if you don’t want to pay for food – don’t buy it, if you don’t want to pay checked in bag charges – don’t bring checked in bags, if you don’t want to pay handling charges – then just use Visa Electron entirely  free of charge. 
 
Since we confirmed that we are considering a toilet charge we have received a huge number of ancillary revenue suggestions from passengers and we want more. We are asking passengers to submit their ideas with the most creative winning €1,000 cash.

Passengers can submit their ideas by email to competition@ryanair.com to enter their idea before the 30th March 2009. The winning idea will be chosen by Ryanair and our decision will be final.”

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