If you thought that the poor quality of in-flight food, ridiculous compensations on delayed flights and airports that smell worse than state-run hospitals were pushing your limits and already making air-travel beyond a joke, listen to this.

The head of budget European airline Ryanair Michael O’Leary unleashed a flood of public indignation last Friday, when he suggested that future passengers might be obliged to insert a British pound coin for access to the lavatory to get some in-flight relief. The Airline chief suggested that installing pay toilets would lower ticket costs and make flying, somehow, easier for all.

“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,” O’Leary spokesman Stephen McNamara said. At the same time, Stephen finds that this regulation, if implemented would be part of a logical trend. “Passengers using train and bus stations are already accustomed to paying to use the toilet, so why not on airplanes? Not everyone uses the toilet on board one of our flights, but those that do could help to reduce airfares for all passengers.”

What if passengers really have to go, but don’t have the correct change? Will Ryan Air soon start charging for oxygen masks and seat belts too? What can I say… If Ryan Air manages to implement this and I ever fly Ryan Air (immensely doubt this), I am going to avoid their food and beverage cart like the plague.

Via : Associated Press