One airline exec’s anti-alcohol request is perhaps a tall order for boozing travelers.
After Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary’s comments concerning the must impose a two-drink limit at airport bars as a result of an uptick in violence amongst plane passengers, frequent flyers aren’t too pleased with the proposal.
“We don’t need to begrudge people having a drink,” O’Leary said this week, per The Telegraph. “But we don’t allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000 feet.”
He argued that gate agents have difficulty identifying over-served individuals during boarding, and imposing a drink limit would protect the protection of the pilots, crew and fellow flyers.
“Within the old days individuals who drank an excessive amount of would eventually fall over or go to sleep. But now those passengers are also on tablets and powder,” he said.
“It’s the combination. You get rather more aggressive behavior that becomes very difficult to administer. And it’s not directed just on the crew. Passengers fighting with one another is now a growing trend on board the aircraft.”
But travelers weren’t so thrilled concerning the prospects of sober flying, taking to Reddit to specific their adamant disproval of O’Leary’s suggestion.
“Don’t you dare take away my airport drinking, Ryan,” scolded one person.
“Insist we turn as much as airports 3 hours early. Take away the one thing that’s even remotely enjoyable in airports,” scoffed one other. “Not a giant fan of the proposal, won’t lie.”
“Or, possibly just have an absolute zero tolerance and ban anyone getting violent on flights from being ever being allowed to fly or leave the country again,” argued another person, writing that loads of passengers “don’t start causing fights and getting violent when drunk.”
“I can be unable to fly. I get very severe anxiety when flying and have found a few drinks really helps me through,” wrote one pro-booze traveler.
“I don’t get smashed, I don’t harm or upset anyone. Why should I be punished because other people can’t handle their booze?” they added.
