Sky-high costs to use a toilet!!

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LONDON (Reuters) – Ryanair's chief executive said Europe's largest budget carrier might start charging passengers for using the toilet while flying, but his spokesman cautioned Michael O'Leary often just made things up at will.

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"One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound ($1.43) to spend a penny in future," O'Leary told BBC television.

He said this would not inconvenience passengers traveling without cash. "I don't think there is anybody in history that has got on board a Ryanair aircraft with less than a pound."

A spokesman said the airline had considered the fee as a possible source of extra revenue since passengers had the option of not using the toilet on board, but added that "maybe O'Leary was just taking the p*ss this morning."

"Michael makes a lot of this stuff up as he goes along and while this has been discussed internally there are no immediate plans to introduce it," Stephen McNamara said in a statement.

"We did enact this change on a trial basis on one flight," added McNamara. "However, a guy named Robin Flannagan, or something like that, started yelling about how gay it was to charge him to take a leak, and he didn't have any change, and he wound up dropping trou and leaving a Brooklyn steamer in the middle of the aisle. Any income we'd made on the toilet up to that point was offset by the costs of cleaning up the poo and the subsequent vomit on the back of sixteen seats."