An airline boss has called for a two-drink limit for passengers before they board their flight.
Good luck with that.
Controversial Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has proposed limiting passengers to two drinks to combat increasingly poor behaviour on flights.
I mean, he has a point. We’ve all experienced an annoying drunk passenger. I once had half a plane of them when I shared a flight to Queensland with a football club on their end-of-year trip.
People complain about babies on flights, but I don’t see of them throwing half full cans of beer around the cabin as I did on that occasion.
“But we don’t allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000ft,” Mr O’Leary said. To be fair Mr O’Leary, they are not driving the plane.
“In the old days, people who drank too much would eventually fall over or fall asleep. But now those passengers are also on tablets and powder,” he added.
“It’s the mix. You get much more aggressive behaviour that becomes very difficult to manage.”
I’m sure all of that’s true, what I’m not sure of how he expects this to be policed?
There are bars all over airports, in the food halls, in restaurants, even on the concourses. How does he propose this two-drink limit work?
Do you think such an idea is possible? Do passengers need to behave better?
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