Ryanair New Rump Rules Revealed
2016-11-03
There was further controversy surrounding Ryanair this week as officials at Doncaster/Sheffield Robin Hood Airport announced that it will be a test site for the airlines latest initiative to make flight pricing run more closely in parallel with resource usage.
As from next Thursday, alongside the rack for checking the size of hand luggage, passengers will find another receptacle of slightly smaller dimensions. Dubbed the ArseRack by check-in staff, passengers will be asked to place their buttocks in the device to determine whether their backside falls within single seat guidelines. If it won’t fit in, or there is ‘blubber overspill’ as it is described on the Ryanair website, then the passenger will be given the choice of paying for an additional seat or travelling in the cargo hold.
A spokesman for Ryanair accepted that not everyone would be happy. “The salad dodgers are going to hate this” he said, “but we have to think of the comfort of all our passengers. If you’ve paid for a seat, it’s just not fair if the passenger next to you initiates a buttock encroachment scenario. They’re effectively stealing arse space from you, and this is our way of redressing the balance.”
When we visited the airport yesterday, we tried to get reaction from some of the passengers who will be adversely affected by the new rules, but didn’t have much luck. There were a number of generously proportioned passengers checking in for the 11.05 flight to Malaga, but they were all either busy ‘taking on fuel’ for the journey, or too out of breath to talk.
