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"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...

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

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

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

Ryanair wants to turn the airport into a pubcrawl.

Interesting.

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

"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

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).

What if we made airports less shit, so people weren't spending so much time there, so people weren't as stressed about missing their flights.

I have never been stressed to get on a bus, you roll up, put your shit in it, and get on. No massive waits, no massive security line, just get on and the bus leaves. We should make airports more like this.

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

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

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).

Bit dismayed people in comments are focused on Ryanair or air travel in general.

It's never appropriate to be drunk and disorderly in public, especially if you are being a problem for staff. Doesn't matter if you are frustrated, or delayed.

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.