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Jul032010
July 3, 2010
Carry on then hold on
We’ve been down this road before but I must take you there again. Ryanair again floats pay-to-pee, no-seat travel. Since Ryanair promotes carry-on/no-checked-bags travel you wonder where the standing passengers’ bags are going to go. You also wonder if this idea will ever fly. Or if it’s just another of O’Leary’s stunts.
Reader Comments (10)
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Cheap ticket airlines are certainly a boon to people willing to put up with uncomfortable inconveniences. Some of us are older or have special needs and cut-rate companies do not serve us well. Although I'm seventy I stood on a train in Germany last October for an hour and twenty minutes. It is doable but not comfrotable. I would never, ever use an airline that didn't have the amenities I need to be comfortable.
When you make statements such as you have I would hope your experiences were more worldly and knowledgeable regarding others besides yourselves.
In my youth nothing was too uncomfortable for me and I could stand painlessly for hours. Now I'm 52, I wish (and have) to travel in comfort, so I pay the price and avoid low cost carriers like the plague. The fact that we have to fly for seven + hours to reach the UK alone, is a major consideration towards our comfort level.
To you younger people who love these Ryanair offerings, enjoy them while age is on your side. ;-)
Interesting seat/stand design, but how does one prepare for an emergency landing in the crash position?
Assuming the standing position was safe, Ryanair could put in a standing room class. However, they would still keep the seats for people who chose to do so. Of course, companies always like to make things difficult and screw things up.
For a flight less than an hour, I might be willing to go for standing only. However, I would be rebelling against it in longer situations.
turbulence during the flight? Or as Paula indicated about
emergency landing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/10409315.stm
"You folks back there in coach: sorry you have to stand.... But there are hand straps you can hold on to during the flight.... that's right, Ma'am, right there above your head..."
So old, I couldn't find a clip on You Tube!
I have now lived long enough to see the comedy of my adolesence (almost) become reality...
Oy, Vey!