Controversial as always, the Ryanair executive Michael O'Leary has provoked uproar by claiming seatbelts on aircraft are pointless and will not save passengers in a crash.
In his ongoing quest for to create a "standing-cabin only", O'Leary said legislation forcing passengers to wear seatbelts is useless and unnecessary.
He even called the aviation authorities "plonkers" for insisting upon such rules.
As the Sun reports, the Ryanair chief said: "If there ever was a crash on an aircraft, God forbid, a seatbelt won't save you.” - “You don’t need a seatbelt on the London Underground. You don’t need a seatbelt on trains which are traveling at 120mph, If they crash you’re all dead.”
O’Leary said that standing passengers could simply “hang on to a strap” from the ceiling if the plane was hit by turbulence. Ryanair are allegedly prepared to offer tickets for as little as £1 to passengers on short haul flights standing in the rear of the cabins, where ten rows of seats could be removed.
He went on saying that: "We operate 1,500 flights a day. They don’t come skidding in. This is a very routine, safe form of travel. “
“We’re always looking for new ways of doing things - it’s the authorities who won’t allow us to do them. They are all a bunch of plonkers”.
“The problem with aviation is that for 50 years it’s been populated by people who think it’s this wondrous sexual experience, that it’s like James Bond and wonderful and we’ll all be flying first class when really it’s just a bloody bus with wings.”
According to the Telegraph, Michael O'Leary consider planes to be “just a b----- bus with wings”.
"Most people just want to get from A to B. You don't want to pay £500 for a flight.”
“You want to spend that money on a nice hotel, apartment or restaurant... "You don't want to p--- it all away at the airport or on the airline." O'Leary said.
Mr O'Leary is known for being outspoken and he has previously;
- Suggested charging passengers to use Ryanair toilets
- Suggested environmentalists should be shot
- Proclaimed an “astonishing” number of his customers want to tax and torture fat people.
The Telegraph reports that he also think that travelers should pay 60 Euros to print a boarding pass, “for being so stupid.”
What ever will come next?
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