Ryanair Allows Smoking!

OK - not strictly true but an eyecatching headline!

Ryanair - smoking does not get in your eyes

Fancy a cigarette when you fly? You can on a Ryanair flight.

21 September 2009

Michael O'Leary is up to his money-making antics again, this time going against the grain of public opinion by allowing passengers to smoke on his airplanes.

Passengers over the age of 18 years will be offered the airline's new Similar Smokeless Cigarettes. They are sold in packs of ten on board Ryanair flights for £6 a packet.

Similar Smokeless Cigarettes contain no toxins or chemicals and are claimed to be harmless to the user and to those around them.

In a recent survey, a tiny proportion (24,000 v a claimed 60m) of Ryanair passengers said they would like to smoke during flights. How the complaints are dealt with remains to be seen.

In March 2004 eight passengers were banned for life by Ryanair for smoking on flights.