RyanAir to Charge to Use Toilets

Really? Or, is it a joke. If it's a joke, I laughed so hard I almost peed in my pants.

The Guardian reports that RyanAir's chairman has said that he would like to charge for using the toilets while a flight was in progress. His goal is to keep the cost of the air fare down and gives Liverpool Street rail station as the example of how you have to pay for this privilege in other transportation settings. There's no end to the possible puns for this story ("no relief for passengers on RyanAir" is a good start), but I can imagine a Senate hearing on this if any American airline tried it!