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Boeing will keep toilets on Ryanair jets


Budget airline Ryanair says aircraft manufacturer Boeing does not want to fulfil its request for planes with more seats and fewer toilets because it believes that would compromise passenger safety.

Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said he still hoped to convince Boeing that removing two toilets and adding six seats would not slow down emergency evacuations.

A Boeing spokeswoman said the company did not discuss conversations with customers.

Keen to cut costs, the Irish airline says it also wants passengers to pay to use the toilets on its short flights within Europe.

Ryanair is planning to make its toilets coin-operated, forcing passengers to fork out STG1 ($A1.65) or one euro ($A1.45) every time they want to spend a penny in the sky.

"By charging for the toilets we are hoping to change passenger behaviour so that they use the bathroom before or after the flight," Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara told the Daily Mail last week.

"That will enable us to remove two out of three of the toilets and make way for at least six extra seats."

The news came as the carrier came under fire for hiking fees for check-in baggage by 33 per cent to STG20 ($A33) per bag.



fonte: TheSidneyMorningHerald
 
Ryanair farà pagare per usare la toilette

Nuova idea della compagnia low cost per i voli interni all’Europa. Ma Boeing dice “no” all’idea di tagliare i bagni per aggiungere posti in più


Ryanair sta studiando la possibilità di imporre ai passeggeri il pagamento dell’uso della toilette a bordo, sulle tratte brevi dei collegamenti in Europa.
E questo mentre il costruttore americano Boeing si è rifiutato di soddisfare una richiesta del vettore low cost: allestire velivoli con meno bagni allo scopo di aumentare il numero di posti passeggeri. Ryanair però non demorde, e l’amministratore delegato Michael O’Leary ha affermato che spera ancora di convincere Boeing su queste modifiche: rimuovere due toilette consentirebbe infatti di aggiungere sei posti passeggeri. Modifiche con cui il vettore punta a ridurre ulteriormente i costi operativi. E sempre in questa direzione va l’idea di far pagare ai passeggeri l’uso del gabinetto a bordo. Non comment sulla questione da parte di una portavoce di Boeing.


fonte: City
 
US regulators thwarting plans for pay toilets, Ryanair boss says



Brussels - United States authorities are thwarting plans by Ryanair to charge its customers for using the toilets onboard its planes, the airline's boss Michael O'Leary said on Tuesday.

O'Leary, the head of Europe's largest low-cost airline, said he wanted to remove two out of the three toilets fitted on its planes to create space for six extra seats, and make passengers pay for the remaining loo.

"Yes, we are thinking of it but we are not getting much help from the regulatory authorities," he told a news conference in Brussels.

The changes would have to be approved by Boeing, the current supplier of Ryanair's fleet, and by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) of the US, where Boeing is based.

But O'Leary complained that both are resisting, citing safety concerns.

"They say that in an emergency evacuation it would take longer if there were six extra seats," the Ryanair boss said, adding that his company thinks otherwise.

"We think it would take (a) shorter (time), because the bottleneck at the back of the plane in an emergency evacuation (is) the two toilets," O'Leary argued.

The Ryanair supremo said Boeing and the FAA are also opposed to another, even more radical plan to maximise passenger numbers - that of creating standing seats on planes.

"We have made no progress at all," O'Leary lamented.

He said he was more sympathetic to safety concerns on this specific proposal, but still insisted that it could be workable.

"They say you can't stand on a plane. Why not, if you can stand on a train, on the London underground?" he asked reporters.


fonte: EarthTimes
 
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