Ryanair’s much ado about nothing

You gots to love Ryanair, Michael O’Leary is a modern Don John a “plain-dealing villain”, with the latest plans of the company being revealed this week, and as usual the press is full of him – can you say wag the dog?

Those taking flights of less than one hour will be charged one British pound to use the loo, or so he thinks, surely only the first person will put a coin in and then the door will be held open for the next and so on, like handing a trolley over in Aldi’s car park?

What happens if the planned hour trip is delayed? Will you get a quid back or is is free to pee after the hour?

Good luck enforcing that one Michael.

Fortunately the Ryan flights from UK to Serre Chevalier serve Turin or Grenoble and take about an hour and a half, I have a slight preference for Turin as the road is nicer since the winter Olympics were held there and it is less likely to be affected by a bloody French strike.

O’Leary has also talked about “vertical seats” for a fiver – how sweet is that? What a great way to get some excercise in for a ski holiday by doing the chair against the wall all the way here?

If he said people wearing purple would have to pay a “spectral surcharge” he’d get loads of fee coverage, he really does know how to play to the gallery, still it’s easier for the modern media to copy a press release than do their job and ask real questions about the routing our planet’s getting.