"It's becoming a real challenge for all airlines. I fail to understand why anybody in airport bars is serving people at five or six o'clock in the morning. Who needs to be drinking beer at that time? There should be no alcohol served at airports outside licensing hours."
"A two-drink limit would be extraordinarily difficult to implement, short of breathalysing passengers, and would, in our opinion, be an over-reaction, especially since many of the problems stem from incoming flights. It is in everyone's interests to have good behaviour at airports and on flights."
"We are reasonably responsible, but the ones who are not responsible, the ones who are profiteering off it, are the airports who have these bars open at five or six o'clock in the morning and, during delays, are quite happy to send these people as much alcohol as they want because they know they're going to export the problem to the airlines."
Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary has called for stricter alcohol controls at airports, proposing a ban on alcohol service before early morning flights and a two-drink maximum at other times. He cited that Ryanair diverts nearly one flight daily due to passenger misbehavior, up from one weekly a decade ago. O'Leary argues airports profit from early morning alcohol sales and shift responsibility to airlines. JD Wetherspoon owner Tim Martin counters that airport bars are highly supervised with strict policies, and disputes that airport customers cause flight disruptions, noting many problems stem from incoming flights. Martin argues a two-drink limit would be impractical to enforce without breathalysing passengers.
Read at Irish Independent
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