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    2. ICutDownTrees on

      Only if they ban selling alcohol on planes. Let’s call this cunts bluff

    3. chronicbint on

      I reserve the right to have a few beers and a full English at 5am in an Airport, its a British tradition. This fascist can do one.

    5. Dry-Employee2728 on

      Only if you also then ban airlines from providing alachol on those same early morning flights.

    6. Glittering_Box4815 on

      „And instead, spend the money on my high-margin beers and wines on my plane“ Ryanair CEO.

      This is just his usual PR move, if he was serious he would ban sales on his planes. At least if you drink on the ground, they can deny you boarding. I’m a lot more concerned about being in a pressurized tube at 30,000 ft with a pisshead over the alps then Dave have a couple of pints at Luton.

    7. Lesplash349 on

      Modern Britain is built on 3 Madris at 5am before a short haul to Spain/Greece.

      Young and old, rich and poor, couples, solo travellers, families, boys’ trips, girls’ trips, non-binary trips, Northerners, southerners, Welsh, Scots and even both sides of Northern Irish, we come together in this moment of joy. When so much divides us, the humble airport pint unites us.

      In other words, fuck off O’Leary.

    8. Cockapoo-Cockatoo on

      Let people do what they like. But if they’re aggressive drunk just don’t let them on the plane and ban them from future flights.

    9. ProfPMJ-123 on

      It’s the responsibility of the pilot in command to decide who/what can and can not be on the plane.

      The airline is entirely within its rights to not let people on the plane, and if someone’s drunk enough to be disruptive on a flight, it’s fucking obvious when they’re getting on.

      This is a problem for him to solve himself.

      I’ll be getting on a KLM flight at 6am on Sunday morning (yikes).

      I guarantee they won’t let anyone steaming drunk on.

    10. ArissP on

      They can mitigate this risk (of diverting) by refusing to board the passengers.

      Make it a rule of carriage for Ryanair. Appear intoxicated, you don’t fly. Ryanair has to mitigate this risk, it’s not for others to mitigate it for them.

      A early pint isn’t going to hurt anyone (but it’s not for me), but getting pissed, of course it’s an issue, so Ryanair staff need to do better of identifying and dealing with those passengers and routes that are high risk.

    11. weejockpoopong on

      Quite agree with him tbh. But maybe just shift it a few hours. So can after 9 or something.
      Not sure why people want a beer at 5:30. Hahaha it’s a choice though which is what makes the country lovely 🙂

      Ban booze from plane though if he got his way!

    13. ShelecktraYT on

      Define ‚morning‘ though, is It only absolutely defined as the hours between midnight and mid-day?

      Or can it be the time someone considers morning because they work an odd time frame?

      I used to work nights in security and I had a pint at the casino on the way home (only place I could get a pint back then at 8am in the morning) so to some I look like a problem drinker, but anyone who had taken the time to ask would realise that 8am was my 6pm.

    14. misterala on

      I’ve never had more than a single pint at an airport before boarding (and usually don’t bother), but in practical terms, I’m not sure how someone drinking before a 9am flight is any different to them drinking before a 9pm flight in terms of behavioural outcomes…

    15. leclercwitch on

      I had a pint at 4:30am in LBA and I will not ever be doing that again. Everyone has the right to but I don’t know how you all do that, I felt horrific and it was only the one.

      Let the people have the pints.

    16. HabitualDrunkard1993 on

      I never understood why people who would normally judge others for drinking in the morning will happily get pissed at that time as long as they’re on holiday 

    17. Muffinlessandangry on

      You aim your product at a target demographic and then expect others to stop your target demographic from acting the way you knew your target demographic acts.

    18. CyberRenegade on

      They should ban unruly passengers from flying, like they do for drink driving

    19. pajamakitten on

      Or we could not do that and just have an open talk about how too many people here drink too much at airports. Nothing wrong with a pint before an early morning flight whatsoever. It is the people who have half a dozen pints and some of the old Colombian marching powder before their two hands Ur flight to Majorca that are the problem.

    20. gixxer-kid on

      He said before about limiting it to 2 drinks per boarding pass, I’m all for it. Drunk people on planes are a nuisance

    21. Hells_Bells6 on

      If this happens people will just drink at home in the early hours before the airport or pull an all nighter with there friends, especially if it’s a group travelling for a stag do etc

    22. DifficultyOk9788 on

      I hate Ryanair and their CEO but this is the first time I’ll probably agree with him, my local airport, Belfast International is a fucking nightmare of alcohol fuelled idiots and two outcomes can happen if they are banned from drinking

      A. They aren’t drunk on planes and are quiet
      B. They can’t stomach the idea of flying without drink, and don’t go there meaning empty seats

      Both are a win imo

    23. ZeroEffectDude on

      I might be in the minority but i find it weird the way so many people get pissed on flights. almost like an automatic response, they start getting smashed in the airport.

    24. Tight_Huckleberry101 on

      And only allow two drinks on the plane. Ah but thats how you make some of your money!!

    25. RecentTwo544 on

      I know everyone jumps on the „lets hate on Ryanair“ train as usual, but I can’t say I’m against this entirely.

      I like a pre-flight pint – *slightly* nervous of flying for reasons I can’t quite work out. One beer helps remove that.

      But as someone who flies to Ibiza quite a lot I am right behind this.

      For most flights I do get it – it does seem a bit draconian if you’re flying for say, a nice couples weekend in Rome and you fancy a drink at the airport before you go. But if you’ve ever been on the shit-show that is the Ibiza run, and it isn’t the only route that can get lairy, I can see why he’s saying this.

      Ryanair can and do restrict alcohol sales on board on certain routes, so this isn’t him „trying to make more money“, it’s simply because it isn’t overly unusual for Ryanair flights to be diverted or returned due to drunk passengers, which costs a *lot* of money and massively inconveniences passengers, because they got drunk at the airport, something out of Ryanair’s control.

    26. HotPotatoWithCheese on

      Make no mistake, this guy isn’t proposing the idea because he wants less drunk/rowdy passengers, it’s so they can make more money selling booze on the plane. If people have been sitting in an airport drinking orange juice for 2 hours, chances are they’re going to be inclined to buy more alcohol on the flight.

      Exploitative cunt.

    28. ChickenPijja on

      I get that people drink before flights because it’s their holiday, or they’re nervous flyers, and I’m sure other reasons. What’s always surprised me is that the design of airports, and in flight service, almost seems to encourage the consumption of alcohol. There doesn’t seem to be any alternatives, which strikes me as odd. I know it has a rough reputation for it’s smell, and obviously crossing borders (at the moment) is a big no no, but I’ve thought what if cannabis was available in airports to consume on the premises via fixed hookah (so passengers can’t smuggle it to their destination)? It would be an alternative to consuming alcohol for those wanting to relax, there’s far fewer bouts of aggression from cannabis compared to alcohol, the health risks are at worst as bad as alcohol, and the marketing of „get high before you fly high“ practically writes itself.

    29. beIIe-and-sebastian on

      >Ryanair was being forced to divert an average of nearly one flight every day because of bad behaviour onboard, up from one a week a decade ago.

      What’s the consequences of being disruptive? Flying is a privilege, not a right. Causing a diversion and inconveniencing a hundred other passengers should result in being blacklisted by other airlines.

    30. IgneousJam on

      If you looked up the word “gobshite” in the dictionary this guy’s face would be smiling back at you

    32. R9182 on

      Alcohol should really be banned in airports and inside aeroplanes. It’s already banned on a lot of public transport that has much more favourable conditions than 200+ people packed inside a small can for a few hours.

    33. KBMBRO on

      Don’t know can’t tel you how many wankers I’ve encountered at airports or on planes because they think a few pints give them license to do and say what they want.

      Maybe he’s onto something.

    34. Fantastic_Back3191 on

      There’s only one thing O’Leary will ever care about. Ignored.

    35. Over_Bluebird5087 on

      Okay Michael, let’s have no alcohol on any flights. I mean after all people can’t be trusted to only have 1 in the airport surely than means they can’t be trusted to have self control on your flights right?

    36. theinspectorst on

      Each to their own. Britain needs to move away from the ‚I personally don’t like this thing so let’s ban it for everyone‘ mentality.

      Personally though I hate the early morning pint. I’m the guy at the start of a stag do who is standing around awkwardly in the airport pub with a cup of tea while everyone else is getting a pint in.

    37. jizzyjugsjohnson on

      Completely agree. There is no reason for airports to be serving booze at 6am.

    38. ItalianCoffeeMorning on

      Yeah this is just nonsense. He has no say/power/credit to take away our pre flight beers

    39. somethingbrite on

      It’s an odd thing eh? Kind of unique to air travel and handful of pubs that have been historically allowed to be open stupid early because of markets or whatever (there is one at borough market like this?) I travel a lot for work and I frequently see folks having a couple of beers at airports really early in the morning. (it’s not a British thing either… I see this all over the place)

    40. Speedbird1A on

      Funny how so many on this thread are so supportive of banning it, yet airport Spoons are packed at 5am.

      Really shows you how Reddit is not representative of reality on anything.

    42. BambooSound on

      If you can get fined £5k for being drunk on board, is Ryannair really doing this to everyone that’s disruptive?

      Because I bet if people were more worried about this, they’d control themselves.

    43. Longjumping-Fig-7481 on

      Aye, gunna be an awesome flight when the alcoholic can’t get a drink lol

    44. National-Concern6376 on

      What’s the difference between a passenger getting pissed at 5qm or 5pm, their still pissed!

    45. Lumpy-Home-7776 on

      Honestly, the bloke’s just trying to cut costs by pushing the blame onto us instead of looking at how much they charge for onboard drinks. A greasy fry-up and a pint before a flight is practically a rite of passage, not the root of all onboard chaos.

    46. Worldly-Bear-4318 on

      This isn’t the first time he has brought this up. I heard him say it in the last few years in a speech. The diversions are probably costing a fortune and I can see him cancelling onboard sales if he needed to if the cost of drunken passengers outweighs the profits from selling booze.

      „O’Leary said Ryanair was being forced to divert an average of nearly one flight a day because of bad behaviour onboard, up from one a week a decade ago.“

    47. Immorals1 on

      Don’t ban it, limit it.

      My flight home last night from Rhodes was delayed by 40 minutes as they had to turf out some drunk elderly people who were causing an issue just as the plane was revving up to takeoff, which was great with a kiddo way beyond his bedtime.

      I’ve seen people get aggressive to the staff on flights and customers on other flights before.

      I love my ritual of an early morning beer or too, but there is a limit.

    48. Youbunchoftwats on

      An Irishman worried about drunken behaviour. He will be ex-communicated.

    49. Unfair-Heat6155 on

      Listen knobhead, if I want to have a pint in the airport before my one holiday of the year, I’m entitled to do so!

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