Ryanair boss calls for ban on early-morning airport drinks as bad behaviour rises

Michael O’Leary says his airline has to divert one flight a day on average because of disruption from passengers

partial_accumen 16 points 2 months ago

I fail to understand why anybody in airport bars is serving people at five or six o’clock in the morning.

For the same reason you cut corners on service on your planes, Mr. Boss: profit

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Alexstarfire 13 points 2 months ago

I assumed passengers that cause airplanes to divert because of their behavior were already seeing consequences, like being banned from that airline. Is that not the case? Sounds like seeking compensation is new. Which is something I also expected to be happening already.

I don't like the morality angle the CEO brings up. If you're even going to bring it up, why do people need to drink at all? That's for me to decide Mr CEO, not you.

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slazer2au 13 points 2 months ago

Maybe if you didn't provide such a shit service people would need to drink to bear the flight.

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d00ery 8 points 2 months ago

Pay extra to sit next to my travelling companion when we're booking both seats at the same time .. there's no way that the booking system costs any more to arrange this - purely a junk fee to entice customers and then gouge them.

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slazer2au 4 points 2 months ago

All the carriers do that from what I see. I booked a flight with my wife and the second seat was about 70% more of it was next to the first seat.

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bluGill 10 points 2 months ago

Ryanair - they must not have been in the news enough lately and so marketing is looking for something else to get attention.

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jdr 5 points 2 months ago

Remember the time they said they'd make you stand? Or pay for toilets? Lazy journos should be punished with Ryanair flights.

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fubarx 3 points 2 months ago

The few times I've been on Ryanair, it was packed with people either drunk or pre-drinking before landing.

Just assumed that was part of their business model.

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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor 0 points 2 months ago

At 6 am, my body will only accept solid but light food and a tea. I fail to understand how can someone drink enough to cause an airplane to divert so early in the morning.

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LurkingLuddite 1 point 2 months ago

Well it's not usually the drinking itself that gets people in trouble.

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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor 1 point 2 months ago

No, I know. But what I mean is, if at 6am, even thinking of a beer upsets my stomach, how the hell do these people manage to drink a beer or 5?

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khannie 3 points 2 months ago

It's fairly common for folks here going on holiday to have a pint regardless of the hour.

"There's no time zone in the airport" is the rule. I had one at 10am the last time I was going abroad. Just the one. Under normal circumstances I would never even vaguely consider drinking that early so it's fully contextual.

I can't imagine getting hammered at that hour though. Mental.

This whole story was on the news today and some context was given which I thought was important - Ryanair operate 3500 flights a day so the odd one getting diverted seems inevitable.

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