Michael O’Leary, CEO of bargain-basement European airline Ryanair, is no stranger to stirring up controversy. But this is probably the first time one of his antics has resulted in him requiring police protection. [More]
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Ryanair's In-Flight Porn App Would Let You Join The Mile-High Club All By Yourself
By 11.9.11
Michael O’Leary, CEO of cheapo European airline Ryanair, is taking a break from his plans to remove toilets from his planes to talk up his idea for an app that would allow passengers to do everything from gamble to watch porn. [More]
Ryanair Now Planning To Remove Toilets From Planes
By 10.12.11
It’s been more than a year since we’ve heard much about cheapy European airline Ryanair’s grand plan to charge people to use the toilet. That’s because the carrier has apparently ditched the scheme in favor of simply removing two out of three toilets from each of their planes. [More]
Cheap Flights Are A Lie, Hai-Diddly-Ai
By 9.6.11
This little ditty lampoons the whole dirt-cheap flight industry that attracts flyers with super low fares and then adds on fee after fee. It’s sung by the British comedy singing group Fascinating Aïda in the style of an Irish folk song and is clearly a dig at Ryan Air. It’s also pretty amusing, and true. [More]
Ryanair Treats Passenger For Cardiac Arrest With A Sandwich
By 8.4.11
A Ryanair passenger’s family is angry with the airline because they say their father had a heart attack on the airplane and all the crew gave him was a sandwich. They also made him pay for the sandwich. [More]
Spirit Airlines To Charge $5 To Print Your Boarding Pass For You
By 6.21.11
Bottom-dollar carrier Spirit Airlines is trying very hard to become the Ryanair of the U.S., announcing that it will soon begin charging travelers $5 to have a boarding pass printed by a Spirit staffer at the airport. [More]
Ryanair Launches "Child Free Flights"
By 4.1.11
Most proclamations by RyanAir, the Irish “jet strapped to a metal pole” low-cost airline, sound like April Fool’s jokes anyway but at least their attempt today is right on message. RyanAir announced they are introducing “child free flights” starting late this year. “When it comes to children we all love our own but would clearly prefer to avoid other people’s little monsters when travelling,” said RyanAir’s head of communications Stephen McNamara in a press release. Staying classy is not what this airline is selling. [More]
100 Students Removed From Ryanair Flight Over Baggage Fee Fracas
By 2.7.11
The scene of student revolt on a Ryanair plane was like something out of Berkeley in the ’60s… Except it wasn’t about the Vietnam war, it was about baggage fees. So okay, it wasn’t exactly like Berkeley, but there were a bunch of pissed-off college students. [More]
Getting To Know You: All About The New Friends We Made In 2010
By 12.31.10
Behind every buzzworthy headline of the past year has been someone in charge, someone to blame, or just someone to laugh at and talk about. From the debacle of Toyota’s millions of recalled automobiles, to a fed-up flight attendant with a flair for drama, we’ve become familiar with a few new faces in 2010, for better or for worse. [More]
Enraged Passengers Refuse To Leave Plane
By 11.17.10
A group of French tourists refused to leave the plane for four hours after it landed in protest of how they were treated. [More]
Meet The Airline Seat That Will Destroy Your Crotch
By 9.10.10
Though most airline manufacturers and insiders have scoffed at the idea of “standing room” seats on jets, someone has come up with an airplane chair that is simultaneously more feasible and more uncomfortable. Meet the crotch-crushing SkyRider! [More]
Ryanair's Newest Cost Cutting Idea: Remove Second Pilot
By 9.7.10
Did Ryanair’s publicity-chasing CEO Michael O’Leary read about that American Airlines flight back in June? In a recent interview, he suggested that one way to reduce costs would be to get rid of the second pilot and just make sure every flight has a flight attendant with a pilot’s license. [More]
Ryanair Flight Forced To Make Emergency Landing Over Spilled Tea
By 9.2.10
Perhaps the flight attendants at cheapo airline Ryanair could take a lesson from that Wendy’s training video about how to serve hot beverages; one of their planes was forced to make an emergency landing on Tuesday after a passenger scalded herself with some spilled tea. [More]
Ryanair Kicks Kid Off Flight For Not Buying Extra Seat For Her Violin
By 8.31.10
Extreme discount airline Ryanair kicked a 12-year old girl and her dad off a flight because they didn’t buy an extra ticket for her violin. [More]
Ryanair Passenger: I Was Detained For Complaining About Food
By 7.26.10
Ryanair, the discount airline known for its dirt cheap prices, headline-making PR stunts and occasionally outrageous ideas for what passengers should pay fees for, is defending itself against allegations from a passenger who says he was detained by police at a Norwegian airport because he’d been vocally displeased with his on-board food service. [More]
Boeing Calls BS On Ryanair's Standing Room Seats
By 7.6.10
Last week, cheapo airline Ryanair once again raised hackles and made headlines saying plans to introduce vertical “standing room” seats on its planes. However, it’s looking like this may be yet another PR stunt from Ryanair’s loudmouth CEO. [More]
Latest Ryanair PR Stunt: Vertical Seats
By 7.1.10
Known for making up crazy cost-cutting moves it has no intention of implementing just to to get headlines, Ryanair’s CEO is at it again, saying the budget-airliner plans to introduce vertical seats, of the type Airbus researched but scuttled, next year. [More]
