Gizmodo: ryanair

Ryanair's New Emergency Instructions Could Be Real One Day

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:39:00 EST

After today's $1.40 airplane lavatory charge, the disco girl with the long legs and the lovely smile has sent us proof that Ryanair is going way too far in their demands to passengers.

Yes, it's a fakemodo, which means it's fake.

[Graphic by The Coast of Yemen—Thanks Addy!]

Airline Wants To Charge You to Use the Lavatory

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:50:00 EST

Yes. The unthinkable has happened: European airline Ryanair is thinking about charging their passengers $1.40 to use their lavatories. Ryanair's CEO announced it in an interview with the BBC, and the company has confirmed it:

[Ryanair's CEO] Michael [O'Leary] makes a lot of this stuff up as he goes along and, while this has been discussed internally, there are no immediate plans to introduce it. However, this highlights Ryanair's continuing obsession with lowering costs and passing these savings on in the form of lower fares. Ancillary revenues, all of which are avoidable, help to reduce the cost of flying Ryanair and passengers using train and bus stations are already accustomed to paying to use the toilet so why not on airplanes? Not everyone uses the toilet on board one of our flights but those that do could help to reduce airfares for all passengers.

For those who don't know the Irish airline, Ryanair charges for almost everything and even runs bingos while flying. Knowing how crappy Ryanair's bathrooms can get—coupled with the fact that they don't fly to Göteborg anymore—I won't miss them. [Daily Telegraph]

Image of the Day: An Executive In a Silly Costume

Dan Nosowitz — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:00:00 EST

CNN's otherwise-unremarkable piece on budget Irish airline Ryanair's foray into in-air cellphone use brought an unexpected and unmentioned treat: Michael O'Leary, Ryanair's CEO, in a goofy promotional cellphone costume. Um. [CNN, thanks Billy!]

Europe's Ryanair to Push Passengers One Step Closer to the Edge with In-Flight Cellphone Service

John Mahoney — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:30:00 EDT

If you're flying one of Europe's many discount carriers and you're not violently hungover, you're probably doing something wrong—the cabins of those single-class A319s are bubbling tempests of unshowered, throbbing rage that always seem a fraction of a degree away from boiling over. Now on your sunrise flight from Krakow to Berlin, you can enjoy constant cellphone blabbing from up to six surrounding seats thanks to the good folks at Ryanair, 3, and O2.

After being herded like cattle (a common metaphor, yes, but never so true) to your gate's waiting area which has no seating, bare overhead fluorescent bulbs and a stench not amenable to life, and then after fighting for an unassigned seat and buying your hair-of-the-dog Bloody Mary for $9 US, you can call home and tell everyone how much fun you're having. All for $4 per minute on service provided by Euro carriers O2 and 3. What a wonderful world. [The Register via Gadget Lab, Image: jon gos]