Pay for toilets on a flight?

It doesn't even sound like it should be legal, let alone acceptable. Even on short flights I don't see where this is a good thing. I've had the wonderful luck to jump on a 10 hour flight with food poisoning so I would have run out of change quickly. Where do they even come up with these ideas to annoy customers?

Irish carrier Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, might start charging passengers for using the toilet while flying, chief executive Michael O'Leary said on Friday.

"One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound to spend a penny in future," he told BBC television.

He said this would not inconvenience passengers travelling without cash. "I don't think there is anybody in history that has got on board a Ryanair aircraft with less than a pound."

Clearly this is the same idiotic assumption that US international airport arrivals make when they demand that you pay for a luggage cart. I don't always have small change in my pockets and flight attendants are always asking for people to use change when I am on flights that charge small fees. Always. That said, Ryanair CEO O'Leary doesn't always have bad ideas.