This story from The Guardian in UK is so astounding I kind of wonder if I am being hoaxed. I just got off a call with a student researching online crises and crisis management and one of the questions essentially was: do companies today “get it� when it comes to the online risks. I said I they w...

Filed under: Airlines, News We'd forgive you if you accused us of being pro/anti Ryanair (depending on what you read). In the past week we broke the news that the Ryanair CEO was considering introducing coin operated bathrooms on his flights. Then we reported on remarks of a Ryanair spokesperson who...

Filed under: Airlines, Video OK, so the whole Ryanair paid bathroom thing was probably just a hoax by the Ryanair CEO, or another of his cheeky ways to create some free publicity for his low cost airline. But it turns out that we here at Gadling were not the first to make fun of the concept of a pai...

Ryanair Pay-to-Pee Proposal Pisses Off Customers | Wired.com Jesus, and just when you thought airlines couldn’t get any worse. Pay to use the restroom? Aside from the obvious jokes about people just pissing on the floor (it might improve the smell of some airplanes), just imagine what this is ...

After today's $1.40 airplane lavatory charge, the disco girl with the long legs and the lovely smile has sent us proof that Ryanair is going way too far in their demands to passengers. Yes, it's a......

The Mouth of the West Checking into Ryanair Flight FR118 at Dublin to London Gatwick the other evening I noticed a familiar face in the security line in front of me at Dublin Airport. It was none other than Michael O’Leary the outspoken Chief Executive of Ryanair, widely known as “The Mouth of t...

"Maybe O'Leary was just taking the piss 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," said a RyanAir spokesperson in response to the CEO announcing this morning they were thinking abou...

Where to piss on RyanAir?...

Yes. The unthinkable has happened: European airline Ryanair is thinking about charging their passengers $1.40 to use their lavatories. Ryanair's CEO announced it in an interview with the BBC, and the......

Michael O’Leary has already been named among the worst corporate leaders of 2006 and if you want learn a quick lesson on ‘what not to do as a company head and how not to deal with PR issues’, then the latest controversy coming from Ryanair Airlines is a fine example to look at. Image courtesy ...