Ryanair planing vertical seating

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it might be Standing Room Only Ryanair soon

The latest attempt by Ryanair to make their flights more profitable is their idea of vertical seating. Ryanair is considering removing four regular rows of seats in their aircraft and replacing them with “something like a stool to lean on or sit on”, according to spokesman Stephen McNamara, basically making this area almost just like standing room. It is not quite clear how many extra passengers they would fit in but we can only assume that these would be the cheapest seats on the plane. The plane is currently in discussions with Boeing about the possibility of fitting out aircraft in this manner and presumably a few more concerns (safety, for example) need to be ironed out before such a plan gets put into action.

Apparently Ryanair isn’t even the only airline considering putting in “standing room” areas in their airplanes – Chinese airline Spring Airlines has been talking to Airbus about something very similar. Spring Airlines  a growing airline only has a few planes and is often over booked so it would save them buying new planes

Ryanair’s Previous Ideas on Cutting Costs

Of course, not all of Ryanair’s myriad of ideas on how to cut costs turn into end results. In recent months, Ryanair has raised ideas like charging passengers to use the bathroom or measuring the Body Mass Index of passengers and charging them accordingly; these ideas haven’t progressed to reality, but other extra charges like fees if you don’t print out your boarding passes at home have angered some passengers.