Cheapest Airline Tickets Ever?
Ryanair pledges $6 standing-room-only fares, but some smell a hoax
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What are you willing to put up with for a $6 airline ticket? If you answered "I'd even stand," Ryanair may have a deal for you. USA Today reports the discount carrier is floating the idea, although skeptics doubt it's little more than a PR ploy. But if enough travelers signal interest, standing-room-only air travel could be the next big thing.
"Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair is at it again. The airline -- the same one that keeps promising to introduce the pay toilet now says it's working on a "standing-room-only" vertical seating section in which seats would cost as little as £4 -- or roughly $6.The London Telegraph reports Ryanair is planning to introduce "a standing area" with "vertical seats" on its jets. Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary tells the paper "we've been looking at … taking out the last 10 rows of seats so we will have 15 rows of seats and the equivalent of 10 rows of standing area..."
