Ryanair threatened to make people pay for toilet usage.

Airlines are looking at standing seats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_seat), which would absolutely impact evacuation safety (mainly a concern of bandwidth through the aisle/doors) to save some ticket costs.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/mar/05/ryanair-toi...

> Obviously, seating everyone together is impossible.

We manage it just fine at the movie theater, at sports stadiums, etc.

Sometimes you're one row behind. Sometimes the last person to book is in a weird spot. But largely, if you want to sit with your spouse, you'll be able to.

At a certain point, the bean counters have to be told no.

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lotsofpulp an hour ago | parent [-]

Movie theaters do charge to reserve seats now (at least by me), and sports stadiums have done that forever, as far as I know.

>Ryanair threatened to make people pay for toilet usage.

Ryanair says a lot of crap as part of their advertising strategy. It is ragebait/clickbait/etc. Eitherway, it's on the government to enforce basic standards.

>At a certain point, the bean counters have to be told no.

The government should ensure minimum standards (and sufficient competition in the market). Everything else, let the customers decide what they want or do not want to pay for.

	▲	ceejayoz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Movie theaters do charge to reserve seats now… "Other people are also enshittifying" is not the argument you think it to be. (It's not the case in my area, incidentally.) You asserted it couldn't be done. I quote: > Obviously, seating everyone together is impossible.