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Ryanair Will Allow Smoking On Their Planes, If You Buy Their Brand

September 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM | by | Comments (2)

Well, we didn't have to wait very long for Ryanair to think up another crazy and controversial money-making scheme. Want to know what it is this time, now that they've already talked up paying to pee? Wait for it...wait for it...it's smoking on the plane!

That's right, one of the top behavioral rules of modern day air travel is being turned on its head by Ryanair, who are piloting the idea with their own brand of "Smokeless Cigarettes." What kind of crap are they trying to pull, exactly? Well, it seems that Ryanair took a survey of their passengers, according to USA Today, and found that some 24,000 professed an interest in smoking during flights. It did not however specify how many passengers were surveyed; 24,000 could be like a very low percentage, we have no idea.

It's all about the money the airline will rake in from the sale of the special ciggies anyways. Each pack of the smokeless sticks will cost 6 Euro, or $8.82. There will be no need to light it, and it will not expel smoke, but USA Today quotes the Irish Times in saying that they "look like the real thing but do not have to be lit to provide nicotine to the user...a company statement said they contained no toxins or chemicals and were harmless to the user and to those around them."

Who wants to suck tobacco essence from an overpriced stick during a two-hour flight with no free drinks? No one? Yea, that's what we thought. Keep trying, Ryanair. Keep trying.

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[Photo: Ryanair plane via wicho]

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Ryanair also surveyed passengers asking them if they would 'like the person in front of them to be able to recline their seat into their face' and of course, people said no, so they twisted this to passengers choosing not to have reclining seats. M. O'Leary is a brilliant businessman but he keeps pushing it further and further.
Kirsten1981 on October 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM #Permalink

If This is So Great Then Why Make Real Cigarettes?

If these cigarettes are as good as they sound, then why even bother with real ones, if you can smoke these without killing yourself and everyone else around you? I like the comment before mine - it's a little like having flight attendants union commission a survey about cell phone usage (flights attendants don't want people to use cell phones onboard) and then surprise surprise the phoney survey claims that most people don't want to be able to use cell phones on board.
Barry Graham on October 26, 2009 at 3:33 PM #Permalink

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