Now Playing: The 'Fuel' Monty

A friendly warning to any airline interested in casting a challenge against Irish LCC Ryanair and its boss, Michael O'Leary: don't make such a comment unless you're prepared to face the consequences.

During a press conference earlier this month, the spokesman for Polish national airline LOT, Leszek Chorzewski, told reporters that low-cost competitor Ryanair would "drop their trousers" for extra publicity.

While it's true O'Leary has yet to meet a microphone he didn't like, Chorzewski probably did not expect him to... er... rise up to the challenge. But on Wednesday, O'Leary did just that... saying that he'll walked naked through the streets of Warsaw if LOT removes the fuel surcharge it charges customers by the end of May.

"I will walk down Marszalkowska street naked," said O'Leary on Ryanair's Web site. LOT has used the fuel surcharge to combat rising fuel costs -- a move that Ryanair, which recently marked one year of operations in Poland, has criticized in the past.

What we can't determine, however... is if O'Leary's challenge will serve to convince LOT to kill the surcharge... or, give the Polish carrier all the more reason to keep it? In case it's the former... if LOT drops its fuel surcharge, and O'Leary drops his pants... ANN promises our readers you will NOT see the pictures here.

FMI: www.lot.com, www.ryanair.com