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RYANAIR IS PLEADING with airport bars to limit passengers to just two alcoholic drinks each.
The airline believes the policy would result in “a safer travel experience for passengers and crews”.
A Ryanair spokesperson claimed that European governments “repeatedly fail to take action when disruptive passengers threaten aircraft safety and force them to divert”.
“It is time that European Union authorities take action to limit the sale of alcohol at airports,” the spokesperson said.
“Airlines like Ryanair already restrict and limit the sale of alcohol on board our aircraft, particularly in disruptive passenger cases. However, during flight delays, passengers are consuming excess alcohol at airports without any limit on purchase or consumption,” they said.
“We fail to understand why passengers at airports are not limited to two alcoholic drinks (using their boarding pass in exactly the same way they limit duty free sales), as this would result in safer and better passenger behaviour on board aircraft, and a safer travel experience for passengers and crews all over Europe.”
Ryanair’s call for a two-drink limit was first made by its chief executive Michael O’Leary in August last year, as he reported an increase in disorder on flights.
Ryanair announced last week it has started taking legal action to recover losses against disruptive passengers, as part of a “major misconduct clampdown”.
It said it filed civil legal proceedings against a passenger in Ireland to seek €15,000 in damages related to a flight from Dublin to Lanzarote which diverted to Porto in April last year.
Ryanair contends the passenger’s behaviour caused the diversion.
It said the €15,000 consists of costs such as overnight accommodation for the more than 160 passengers and six crew members (€7,000), Porto Airport landing and handling fees (€2,500) and Portuguese legal fees (€2,500).
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So they can spend more buying booze from them on the flight
@Joe Beirne: Safety of others passengers, crew and integrity of flight plan and safety landing slots. The risk to the optimum balance of plane will also not been dealt with until an accident happens. Luggage is weighed without question.
@thomas molloy: Wha?
@Dave C: I’ve been on 2 flights (by invitation) where passengers were offloaded because the weight threshold had had been exceeded.
@Joe Beirne: did you actually read the article? Obviously not
@thomas molloy: bit early to be drinking
@Joe Beirne: They where only genuine if they don’t serve alcohol on the flight. Now it’s only free advertising for Michel o Leary.
@Joe Beirne: Just bar offending passengers from future flights. Job done.
@Joe Beirne: Got to Laugh
“We fail to understand why passengers at airports are not limited to two alcoholic drinks….” – Ryanair
It is about money, Airport wants to make it, just like ryanair.
@Joe Beirne: may be we should plead a lot on their practice as well
Ryanair imposes limits on alcohol sales on flights? Since when, any Ryanair flight I’ve ever been on I’ve never heard of anyone being refused alcohol. Most I’ve ever heard is they were sold out of a specific drink and offered the passenger a similar alcoholic drink. How about you ban the sale of Alcoholic drinks on you’re planes Michael. Lead by example and show others how it should be done. Wouldn’t that be better?
@Ger Whelan: whatever you say.
@Ger Whelan: * your
@Philip Kennedy: I do say from my own experiences of flying with Ryanair. If you have experienced anything different feel free to share it.
@Ger Whelan: Thank you I will share. I never saw a drunk person being served alcohol on a ryanair flight. How’s that.
@Philip Kennedy: That’s your experience. I’ve had a different experience. But the question remains what hasn’t Michael O’Leary banned alcohol from his flights?. Wouldn’t it make more of a statement for him to ban alcohol altogether where he can’t before asking others to limit the sale of Alcohol?
@Philip Kennedy: Ditto.
Why does Ryanair not limit their drinks during flights.Maybe the solution is to ban all alcohol drinks during flights.
@Kevin O Donovan: Won’t happen. Revenue loss for the low cost airlines….. Others shouldn’t have to suffer for the bad behavior of a small number…… Hopefully fines and threat of recovering the costs will work.
Alcohol should not be sold at airports.
@Patricia Mc namara: some people have a fear of flying and few drinks helps with anxiety plus I don’t see why everyone should be punished because of a small handful of people who cannot handle there liquor
@Patricia Mc namara: Oh piss off.
@Jimbo: In that case, they could bring a small amount with them!
@Jimbo: maybe the nervous or anxious flyers could use CBD or another canninabinoid prior to departure?
A recent systematic review found both clinical and preclinical studies supporting the use of CBD in reducing anxiety levels!
@Ian: did you manage to construct and spell that sentence all on your own, boyo.
@Jimbo: *their
Money saved at bar you can spend on scratch cards on board.
@J B: does anyone know what % of the scratch card sale actually goes to the charity ?
@J B: I point blank refuse to buy any of the Ryanair overpriced merchandise, I being my own water and never give them money for any of there overpriced products!
@Sergio Reddan: minimal most definitely,,ryanair only do it for tax purposes.
@Sergio Reddan: 1%
@J B: for real? Never thought that cu.nt would be so low.
@Sergio Reddan: about 1%
Maybe if Ryanair is on time on their flights it might make passengers buy less booze at the airport bars.
Funny, so Ryanair wants to cut serving booze on the airport and let them drink when in the airplane?
if they see someone intoxicated they can refuse boarding instead, but they won’t do it because they don’t want to be liable for possible civil cases, and complaints.
Ryanair excel at FREE ADVERTISMENT! Only one thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.
It’s the usual knee jerk reaction. Punish everyone because of bad behaviour by a few.
I’d prefer to see the few punished severely!
@Padraig O’Brien: Absolutely. Punishment should be – here’s a parachute and out the tail gate with them.
Anyone having more than 2 pints in departures needs to take a long, hard look at themselves.
@Ronan Mc: why?
@Ronan Mc: Depending on the length of the flight I have a few beers before I fly, relaxing and chilling out.
the only people I have seen cause trouble on a plane bring there own duty free on board and drink it.
Won’t happen, why should a bar cut off a customer, ryanair should stick to its own business and leave the pubs to run themselves.
@John Meade: the anti social behaviour happens mostly on Ryanair as they p.ss off the passengers with the silly rules, so a form of retaliation; also because mostly riff raff use Ryanair.
@Symon: Sadly sometimes there is no option but to use them!
Tghey are the only airline flying to the place you need to go!
@Symon: If a passenger doesn’t understand the rules of Ryanair that’s on them not the airline. If you want to fly with them follow their rules like you would with any other airline. It’s not hard and it’ll make everyone’s life a lot easier.
Sure. They expect them to voluntarily sell less and make less money just because Ryanair says so?
What about ryanair staff cutting of drink to their passengers during flights.there seem to be no end to it during flights..but then again it would cost ryain air the profits they make on them if they did
Ryanair is ‘begging’? What a bizarre choice of words.
I never go over two pre-flight, because I don’t want to be dying for a slash queuing and waiting to take off.
Drink as much as I like all day at airport
@Colonel Gaddafi: Nutter
Why should the masses be punished because of a few people who can’t handle there alcohol
Airport Bars should accept this but then introduce a “priority lane” where you can pay an extra €10 to drink as much as you want.
Just ban pubs from the airport.
Ryanair cabin crew rely on onboard sales commission to make up for the lousy salary they get paid
Terminal 3 in manchester Airport was the worst drinking i’ve ever seen in an airport. There is barely seats in there. Just english lads skulling peroni.
Cut off after two pints?
It’s not as if I’m flying the plane, is it?
Airport pints are slop anyway. Arguably the worst poured pint of Guinness in the Country.
I’ll drink as much as I like Mr o Leary
The price of drink at the airports. 2 drinks would pay for the flight.
A simpler, sensible and easily workable solution would be to extend the driving alcohol and drug limits to EU airside passengers.
Passenger notices dipso (very obvious in my experience) at check-in or boarding cue, report it to attendant and attendant passes it on to airport police for testing, all done before flight, preventing delays. These tests only take 10 minutes or less. Fines for failed test to cover completely the cost of implementing the service.
@4g4mPnNi: how is that sensible? The huge majority of people who might have 2-3 pints cause no trouble at all and yet they’re over the drink driving limit. Punish the fools who cause trouble and make them pay for the costs of diverting the plane and the message will get out.
Two double Black Russians in pint glasses would probably get me over the line so I’m not seeing any problem with this
How could this even work?
You would need a centralised database for all pubs\facilities serving alcohol on the airport. Otherwise, people would just hop from pub to pub.
More free publicity for Ryanair. Why don’t they just add a mandatory breathylyser test to the existing myriad of conditions one has to accept to fit with Ryanair?
Fine all drunk passengers that cause trouble or diversions,they cause much distress to staff and other passengers…fine them big…its a great deterrent…
also mabye consider 2 drinks per passenger?
what do others think?
Good luck that….with.
Ah Michael O’Leary, do as I say, not as I do
Airports don’t give a rats about the flights lol… It’s about screwing us out of our 8 euro for a pint or 5 for a coffee… It’s in their best interests to sell as much as they can.. duty free is only an enticement but the sales of overpriced food and alcohol and so forth is where they make their cash and no cares given.. it’s the same at concerts where you have peddlars selling cans for 10 euro a piece. Michael may as well be talking to a wall, the guys who run these airports are as handy as bankers..
As far as I’m aware it has never been compulsory to show boarding cards at airport shops unless purchasing duty-free products such as alcohol or tobacco.
Nontheless retail staff ask for this all the time. Their epos systems do not require this information and you can refuse to give it.
Ban alcohol sales on your planes or refuse to board passengers who are drunk you can play your part to O,Leary.
Why don’t Ryanair just stop them getting on the plane if their drunk?
Would this not constitute interfering in the ‘free market’ though? I thought O Leary hated that?
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