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No Smoking? Well, Not Really

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Ryanair loves to make the news. They once were sued because they tried to charge extra for passengers wh0 require a wheelchair. Visit their website and you will see that every box to add fees is already ticked off yes, you have to work to uncheck many many services or you get charged.  Here is the latest news from this renegade airline that people love to hate but fly anyway.

Ryanair to Offer Smokeless Cigarettes on Flights

The European low-cost airline Ryanair is bringing back “smoking” on planes by offering smokeless cigarettes to their passengers.

Similar Smokeless Cigarettes, which look and feel like cigarettes, will be available to passengers 18 and older for $9 (€6) per 10-cigarette pack. Passengers will get their “hit” of nicotine from inhaling, so there is no need to light the cigarette, according to the press release, and the smokeless cigarettes also contain no toxins or chemicals, so they are not harmful to the smoker or the people around them.

According to a recent survey, more than 24,000 passengers said they would like to smoke during flights. Ryaniar spokesman Stephen McNamara said the smokeless cigarettes will make for a “more enjoyable and stress free flight for all passengers as non-smokers will no longer have to cope with moody smokers in need of nicotine.”

First Pay-to-Pee, Now It’s No Checked Baggage!

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Some airlines like to take things to the extreme. This week Ryanair announced an additional restriction. Starting next year they will completely eliminate checked baggage from their flights!

This is in addition to their pay-to-pee bathrooms on planes and a $60 fee if passengers don’t take the time to print their own boarding passes. Wow!

The travel website Jaunted reported today the airline ‘Plans to offer an unlimited allowance for carry-on bags” that comply with government size limits.

In a previous past last March, the site tallied up the true cost of flying on this European only airline. The fees included for a 53 pounds roundtrip ticket were 4.75 handling fee, 5 check-in fee, 10 to check one bag, 6 for priority boarding 20 for an additional carryon and a whopping 45 to get you to the city center since the flights end up in Girona which is far away from the Spanish city.

With fees like this, who would ever want to ’save’ money flying Ryanair?  We just hope that this kind of passenger-unfriendly attitude doesn’t make its way over to the US any time soon!