Ban early morning pre-flight pint, says Ryanair boss
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/ryanair-michael-o-leary-airports-ban-the-times-b1281216.html
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Ban early morning pre-flight pint, says Ryanair boss
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/ryanair-michael-o-leary-airports-ban-the-times-b1281216.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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So that passengers buy more drink on his manky flights.
Only if they ban selling alcohol on planes. Let’s call this cunts bluff
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.
Only if you also then ban airlines from providing alachol on those same early morning flights.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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…
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.
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
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.
They should ban unruly passengers from flying, like they do for drink driving
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.
He said before about limiting it to 2 drinks per boarding pass, I’m all for it. Drunk people on planes are a nuisance
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
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.
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.
>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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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)
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.
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.
Flying is a lot more bearable if you are sleepy drunk. Especially on Ryan air.
Because people only get drunk in the mornings…
The time the bars are open is irrelevant, it is how much people are knocking back.
You can have 4am pints and be responsible, you can wait till 5pm and be an absolute embarrassment to yourself and your friends/family
If you’re craving alcohol at 7 am in the morning, then someone needs a meeting!
My suspicion is that this particular problem befalls RyanAir and other low cost airlines disproportionately.
Just a hunch, purely based on circumstantial evidence and some subjective experience of RyanAir.
Perhaps breathalyse passengers before boarding your plane?
Surely its obvious that some brits cant behave when the drinks are in?
Michael O’Leary says something controversial in order to get Ryanair in the papers and everyone falls for it – what else is new.
Might finally get to the toilets now instead of queue behind the pissy pants beer brigade
Damn right. I’m sick of it. I got attacked after a flight once by a group of people we had seen drinking at the airport before the flight.