"But we don't allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000ft."

I didn't realise you had to fly the plane yourself on Ryanair now. That's one way to cut costs I guess...

People are angry because of how absolutely shitty and evil ryan air is when they are abusing and stressing up their passengers with all their bullshit.

Otherwise airports are super calm (in the EU anyways).

Considering how shitty flying economy is in general, it seems like a 2 drink minimum is need to even tolerate it.

Ryan Air: No, it's the airports that are wrong.

"But we don't allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000ft."

Aaah, so the problem is drunk pilots. I can get behind a two-drink maximum for flying a plane. Although, in "Flight" the guy flew a plane upside down hammered...so maybe it should be a two-drink minimum to get maximum innovation.

ETA: I prob should have added /s

Lol, maybe if conditions didn't get so shit in airports, fewer would crack

Ryanair boss prolly uses private jet with open bar and skips the lines at the airport

Me and my buddies were flying for vacation and we were in an airport that does that already. Somewhere in the southwest. So you just go to different airport bars every two drinks. Bar hopping isn't that brazen a concept.

Unless they start tying your purchases to your plane ticket, this just seems like it will create more mobile drunks. It would be nice if they actually enforced policies against people too drunk being allowed to board a plane. I've seen people that were very visibly drunk and loud walk right on.

I guess telling a super drunk person they can't board is more likely to instigate an scene than just waving them onboard and hoping they pass out. Aside from being annoyingly loud and drunk, I was only ever on one flight where someone became a problem, and basically they got into a drunken yelling match with someone next to them.

They got moved to a seat in the back and told if they didn't calm down for the rest of the flight, the police would be waiting for him. He grumbled about it and passed out.

I never really understood why bars are so popular in airports.

Why anyone would want to get heavily drunk before flying is beyond me.

I can maybe see this being a thing way back during the prop days when engines were ridiculously loud and travel was very tiring, but those days have been long.

If you're really that bored even with access to modern technology, you're probably better off taking a sleeping pill.

I get that Lemmy's kneejerk reaction is naturally that the big corporation's CEO is wrong and evil (he IS an asshole, at least), but drunk passengers on planes is an actual issue.

I have a couple of close relatives who've worked as air hostesses for Ryanair for years, and they mostly like the job except for summer flights from a specific European island country in which there's a big tradition of drinking a lot and big groups of men doing "guy trips" to my country either for specific football games or for the beaches. These usually involve an almost permanent state of drunkenness, getting into fights with locals, trashing places.

O'Leary's claim about inebriated people being hard to identify is partly bullshit from what my relatives tell me - they say that even when they can notice these groups are already drunk when boarding, Ryanair's staff isn't really comfortable policy wise in preventing them from boarding. Plane staff may refuse them alcohol on board but by then they're usually already in a state of general lack of control. I assume the company doesn't want to strenghten boarding rules in order not to lose these groups as customers, and staff gets shafted in the process. But these people shouldn't be getting this drunk on a plane (or in general).

People are shit at flying period. You should have to pass a test before being sold an airline ticket. Nothing fancy. Just the basic do's and don'ts of flying. Perhaps a psychological test for good measure and no skin walkers.

What's the surcharge he's got in mind for this idea?

How about two drinks, plus a free drink from the airline you're flying per half hour delayed? Seems more reasonable.

Ryanair wants to turn the airport into a pubcrawl.

Interesting.

Based Mr. O‘Leary I hope he finally makes flying accessible to everyone by introducing standing seats. I find it so inspiring that some CEOs actually care

Problem: Airports have multiple bars and lounges. There's no way to enforce that limit.

When the Irish are telling you to cut down on the drinking, it might be time to cut down on the drinking.

This could potentially make the problem worse.

I could see people "pre-gaming" before they get to the airport. And if there is one thing I learned in college is that alcoholics pre-gaming can be a very dangerous thing

Year, maybe Ryan Air could do with a one-drink-per-seat limit, as the main issue is usually the passengers that get drunk ON the flight. Worst flights have been from the UK, Ireland and from Poland. Maybe Ryan Air could stop serving alcohol ON these flights?

Jokes aside, stop flying Ryan Air.

Reading the article, I see why this is a problem to be addressed. At the same time, I'm not sure how in the world you would directly "fix" this other than outright banning unruly customers after they cause problems.

The best course of action might be to quietly work with restaurant managers in major airports to start watering down mixed drinks, and serve lower-gravity beer and wine, on heavy travel days. I'm mostly sure this is how amusement parks operate; they just need to consult with Disney or SixFlags on this one. The threat of airlines (or the airport) banning heavy restaurant customers might be motivation enough. That way, restaurants make more money, airlines have (maybe) less nonsense to deal with, and there's no documented limit on beverages.