Never one to miss an opportunity to poke fun at rivals, Ryanair has given over a large part of its homepage to highlight an unfortunate incident involving film star Gerard Depardieu.
The French actor was in a spot of bother earlier this week after it emerged he had, err, taken a leak on the carpet of a CityJet aircraft after the seatbelt sign was turned on for take-off for a flight from Paris to Dublin.
Inevitable high profile headlines ensued, Depardieu has since apologised.
Ryanair, of course, just wants to take the piss…
[Clearly some irony in all this given the stories a few years back about Ryanair threatening to introduce pay-to-pee on some flights]
Also ironic, considering @Ryanair defecates on the concept of customer service every day of their miserable existence.
Got to hand it to Michael O’Leary though, he has mastered the art of turning lemons into lemonade and leveraging bad press for positive returns.
Not new at all travel industry equation recognised.
Michael O’Leary = PR Jedi Master
Strike that.
Michael O’Leary = PR Darth Vader
There is nothing @Ryanair does as well as their advertising! I have to give it to them this time. They’ve moved fast and I like it
Ryanair appear to be exclaiming that they’re ‘pissed off with high fare airlines’ rather than asking their customers whether this is the case. There’s a distinct lack of a question mark in this headline, changing the entire message!
@lydia – it could be both
Ryanair Listen Up. Start charging us for using the toilet and we’ll all be doing a “Depardieu” on your aircraft.
@brian – oh dear, someone else sucked into the Ryanair PR machine. Pay-to-pee was never going to happen.
@Brian Maverick – this must be the comment of the day on Tnooz