Aeroplane passengers should be restricted to two drinks at airports, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary has said.

Mr O’Leary said introducing alcohol limits at airports would help tackle a rise in disorder on flights.

Violent outbursts are occurring weekly due to alcohol, he said, especially when it is mixed with other substances.

“We don’t want to begrudge people having a drink,” he told the Daily Telegraph.

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

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    2 months ago

    Not in the US. I’d be fine with it but I don’t know how they’d enforce it. Most of the rowdy people would just get their friends to buy them drinks, or hop from bar to bar at the airport. I doubt they’d make people take a breathalyzer before serving them.

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      2 months ago

      In EU they will not sell you almost anything already if you don’t show your boarding pass. It is very easy to keep a drink counter per passenger.

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          2 months ago

          Schiphol in the Netherlands, Milan and Rome in Italy, also in some airport in London as I recall.

          But thinking about it, some things like food and water at the food court I might have never been asked.

          Oh well.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t think I’ve ever experienced this while flying in the EU, and I’ve done my fair share of it, living here and all.

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        2 months ago

        You only have to show your boarding pass for the tax breaks that come with traveling internationally.

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      Neither but here while there isn’t a ‘limit’ the flights only stock a set amount and flight crew can cut you off when they think you’ve had enough. I don’t think they give a shit if people manage to get drunk. I think largely the point is not having visibly drunk/disruptive people on planes or in airports. Which I kinda can understand.