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A while back Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary caused a stir by proposing making passengers pay for toilets. Though that never happened, it looks like he might have just been biding his time until he could go even further and take out the toilets altogether. Well, some of them at least.
Although Ryanair has dropped plans to install pay toilets on planes, O’Leary now wants to lose two of the three lavatories and replace them with seats.
“We very rarely use all three toilets on board our aircraft anyway,” O’Leary told the newspaper.
The Independent reports that O’Leary wants to push Boeing to re-certify its 737-800 planes to allow for six more seats. Currently, Ryanair planes have 189 seats, the maximum allowed.
If O’Leary’s proposal is a success, nearly 200 passengers and crew members would have to wait in line for access to the one toilet ”” or cross their legs for the duration of the flight.
I’m convinced that Ryanair is just one big social experiment into how far a business can take the concept of “you get what you pay for” before customers hit the point that they decide the cheap fairs aren’t worth it. Results suggest this point is: never.
Read the whole story at MSNBC.