Here’s another reason air travelers should be pee’d off.
The friendly skies may have just gotten a little more uncomfortable after Irish discount airline Ryanair said today it is considering charging passengers to use the toilet aboard its planes.
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary floated a plan that would put a coin slot on the toilet door as a means of raising “discretionary revenue.”
“One thing we’ve looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting in a coin slot on the toilet door,” O’Leary told the BBC.
The flushing fee would be about $1.40.
The Dublin-based airline, which flies to 145 cities within Europe, announced last week to shut all check-in desks at airports and require passengers to check-in online in an effort to cut costs.
The airline is also introducing an onboard cellphone service that will charge passengers up to $5 per minute to make a call.
Stephen McNamara, a spokesman for the company, said there was no certainty that toilet charges would be imposed.
“Michael 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,” he said.
McNamara also said that people using train and bus stations are “already accustomed to paying to use the toilet, so why not on airplanes?”