Any traveler heading to Turkey shouldn’t have to pay scalper prices — that’s basically the bald pitch for Ryanair.
Most lucky individuals who aren’t (or aren’t yet) a part of the hair-loss community probably don’t realize that rejuvenating hair growth is often an international endeavor. Thanks to the United States of America’s love affair with exorbitant medical costs, balding American men and, sometimes, balding American women who wish to undergo hair transplant surgery usually choose to pursue the procedure in other countries, with one state leading the way in elective medical tourism: Turkey.
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According to CBS News, the price for follicular unit grafts at a clinic in Istanbul is typically one-third or even one-fifth the cost to get the procedure in America, and it only follows that bald people on a budget would use the same thrifty approach to transportation that they use with surgery:
There’s something hilarious and audacious about a corporate Twitter account targeting their own thrifty customers with a burn this ruthless. It’s like if an old-timey clothing shop tweeted a picture of a bald guy that reads, “How did you know I’m looking for a newsboy hat?” Or maybe if a barber shop tweeted a picture of a bald guy with the caption, “How did you know I want a goatee and a mustache wax?”
Funny enough, this is far from the first time that the Ryanair social media team woke up and chose violence against their own customers. In fact, anyone who has angrily tweeted at the budget airline’s official account within the last few months has found that Ryanair is even more hostile to its customers than it is to their legroom — and it’s absolutely hilarious: