Thank God we don't have LCC Ryanair operating in Oz!
THE budget airline Ryanair is ordering a fleet of stripped-down planes to cut the remaining “frills” from its service. Out will go reclining seats, window blinds, head rests, seat pockets and other “non-essentials”.
O’Leary is ordering the changes to a fleet of aircraft from Boeing. Ryanair now has to fix about 40 broken reclining seats on each plane every year.
By replacing them with non-adjustable ones, the airline hopes to save more than £1.3m.
Removing window blinds from planes on order will deliver a saving of about £130,000 for each plane, while ditching seat pockets will reduce cleaning costs and shorten the time in which planes are turned around.
The airline aims to save a further £100,000 by removing Velcro headrests, and could generate the same again by replacing them with ones that could be paid for by advertisers.
Best not to complain too much about Virgin Blue.
