Drinking in airport departure lounges should be restricted, according to Ryanair bossMichael O’Leary. The airline boss believes that airport bars should not serve alcohol early in the morning, in a bid to stamp out poor behaviour on flights.
O’Leary, who has served asRyanairCEO for more than 30 years, haspreviously spoken outabout the link between alcohol and disruption to flights. Currently, airport pubs are not subject to the same licensing laws others are bound by, with O’Leary questioning the sense in allowing people to consumealcoholearly in the morning before they fly. The businessman toldthe Times: "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?
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“There should be no alcohol served at airports outside [those] licensing hours."
Mr O'Leary has been calling for a two-drink per-person limit "for many years" and has vowed to pursue disruptive passengers through the courts to reclaim expenses caused by flight diversions.
He added: “In the old days if somebody had drunk too much, they get on board, they fall asleep. You have a combination of drink and drugs — they want to fight somebody, they’re hyper. We and all the airlines are having enormous problems.
“And the women are as bad offenders as the men in this.”
The Ryanair CEO says that the company currently sees flight disruptions of “nearly one a day”.
He said: “Until somebody creates an accident that causes a plane to crash and kills hundreds, no government will take this problem seriously and airlines are tearing their hair out.”
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
