RyanAir

BBC Breakfast said this morning that Ryan Air - the crappy low-cost airline - is proposing a 'fatty-tax' on their flights. They want to start charging overweight people over, if you catch my drift. In other words, there you are, shedding thousands of pounds (sterling) in order to weigh not one ounce less, and still being charged more.

This comes, of course, a few months after the same-self airline proposed charging its customers for using the toilet during a flight. In other words, you're not even allowed to redistribute your weight when you come in.

I have some other proposals for Ryan Air:
*Why don't they make it a standing-room-only flight, and charge double for people in wheelchairs? They do, after all, take up more space.
*Charge people with small children, disabled people and the elderly extra for taking longer to board - after all, every second spent on the ground costs.
*Charge anorexics extra for a seat: if you are light enough to be used as a streamer, you don't deserve a seat, after all.
*Charge normally sized - and under - for the seating space they don't use. If you have 4 people who each have 10 cms left in their seat, they are denying someone else room to sit. The same counts for people who are short.
*Instead of seats, have individual cubby-holes that people lie in, a bit like the pod-hotels you see in Tokyo. I can just imagine it, each traveller gets a space of their own, which can then be redistributed through the plane in order to make more fit in. You could then call the flight a regular coffin ship...

I suppose that one RyanAir adagio stands: you get what you pay for. In other words, you don't pay much, but you get even less.... respect, that is.