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July 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Getting people off and on in twos will speed up airport turnarounds – key for budget airlines’ profits
- Chinese company helping them put together a prototype with wider doors
- Idea came as Ryanair profits dipped by 28% yesterday
By
Martin Robinson
04:58 EST, 31 July 2012
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05:08 EST, 31 July 2012
Ultra cost-cutter Ryanair wants to widen its doors in yet another scheme to make themselves cash.
The Dublin-based airline says allowing people to get on or off in twos could boost their profits as it would speed-up their turnaround at airports.
Ryanair’s outspoken boss Michael O’Leary is famous for his cost-cutting ideas, including charging £1 to use the toilet or even offering standing tickets on flights.
Now Mr O’Leary is in talks with a Chinese company to help him herd passengers on and off in record times.
Good things come in twos: Ryanair wants to get people on and off quicker by widening its doors
The state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China is already considering putting a prototype together for them.
‘The Chinese are willing to listen to what we want,’ Ryanair’s chief financial officer, Howard Millar said.
Full of ideas: Ryanair’s boss Michael O’Leary has considered many extrovert plans to make more money
‘A plane manufactured by Boeing or Airbus is a one-size-fits-all. We want two people to walk through the door.’
It came as last night Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said he was upset he could not charge more for tickets, as profits fell by almost a third.
‘We’re always trying to increase fares, but this time demand doesn’t allow it,’ he said.
He added that austerity and European economic woes would ‘restrain fare growth’ going into next winter.
Lower demand for air travel by hard-pressed passengers was also keeping prices down, he said.
He blamed the 28 per cent fall in underlying pre-tax profits to £88million on the rising costs of aircraft fuel.
The amount the company pays for its fuel has risen by 27 per cent in the last year, he said, and now makes up almost half of total operating costs.
But it transpired that the airline had locked itself into paying a higher price for the fuel, after striking a deal.
Last year it paid the equivalent of
$82 a barrel for the fuel, but this year is shelling out between $100
and $104 – more than it would be paying on the open market.
The deal means Ryanair will pay out
the higher amount until March next year, but O’Leary said it was worth
it for the certainty on costs.
Profits between April and June fell by 28 per cent to £88million, while passenger numbers increased by 6 per cent to 22.5million.
Revenues, which rose 11 per cent to
£1billion, were held back by ‘heavily discounted fares’ from some of
Ryanair’s regional British airports and a number of its continental
destinations.
But the airline has often been accused of adding on additional and hidden charges in the past.
O’Leary said the summer’s trading was
still poor, with Europeans being put off by high prices and many Brits
choosing to stay at home to watch the Olympics.
He refused to comment on Ryanair’s offer for Aer Lingus, which is currently being assessed by European competition authorities.
Shares, which are up 25 per cent in the last 12 months, rose 8.8c to close at €4.
A turbulent ride: Ryanair profits between April and June declined by 28 per cent to £88million
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What is the world coming to when Ryanair are being prevented from fleecing passengers? Is nothing sacred? If Ryanair did something about their administration fees because let’s face it they charge way over the odds for them. Rather than coming up with stupid ideas, they could perhaps copy those flight companies that don’t overcharge customers. Just saying!
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WHY ANY ONE USES THIS JOKE OF AN AIRLINE BEGGERS BELIEF, THIS GUY IS JUST TAKING THE PEE OUT OF THE PUBLIC.
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That’s only a small percentage of the problem . . . You need to get the luggage into the overhead lockers quicker – After the first ten people are through the doors onto the plane the steps immediately begin to fill up with stationary passengers who are waiting for the first people aboard to get settled in their seats before the slow crawl up the steps can begin . . .
And while we are at it . . . maybe some of these rocket scientists could put the windows a few inches higher so that anyone over 6’0″ tall doesn’t get neckache so easily from looking out of the window .
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Please everyone stop using this airline. I worry that their attitude to the care and maintainance of their planes and crew is similar to the contempt they show their customers. I would not trust them to taxi me down a run way let alone travel at 10,000ft….
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Okay make the doors wider but unless you make the aisles wider too there will be a passanger jam at the start of the aisles and the problem will still be there. My suggestion is by far the cheapest and easiest….why not use all the doors on the plane and load passangers in seat /side numbers. I mean, whats the point in having more than one door if you dont use it???????????
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In principle not as stupid as it sounds – commuter trains have wide double doors to let passengers on and off more quickly. However, I’m sure the likes of Boeing and Airbus spend a lot of time on aircraft design to ensure that every element is absolutely airworthy. I’m guessing that you can’t suddenly change the airframe design without a lot of re-testing, etc. And, of course, a re-designed 737 would have to have a new airworthiness certificate before it would be allowed to fly commercially – not cheap! Yes freight versions probably do have wider doors, but again they have been certified separately probably under different rules. I think this is just hype from a man who is a bit clueless in this area… but who would want to fly Ryanair anyway, except if it was the only alternative.
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As the major aircraft manufacturers have said previously Mr O’Leary, we’ll build whatever you want, when you’re willing to pay.
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Having just used them (and they did exactly what I was expecting, they flew me from A to B at a fare I was happy to pay, with no hidden extras that I wasn’t aware of) I found the slowest part was those who rush to be first one the plane, but then get to row 1 or 2 and then faff around putting bags in the bins and unpacking coats and reading material etc, whilst blocking the aisle and preventing everyone else from boarding. Likewise at the back the first boarders immediately stop just one or two rows in. For heavens sake, if you’re the first lot onboard, move down the aisle towards the middle of the plane, then you can take as long as you like settling down whilst everyone else can get in behind you. The crew could do more to encourage everyone to move down too.
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If they started boarding earlier they could actually take off on time. It is the fault of the airline and handling staff, not the people flying being slow.
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The last timeI flew with Ryanair, I swear I saw two sheepdogs at the back of passengers, ready to herd us onto the plane. It wouldn’t come as a shock, believe me!
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