Ryanair makes demands on Europe’s airports • The travel expert: This is how it should be checked
Do you usually have a few drinks at the airport to celebrate the holidays or drown out the fear of flying?
Now Ryanair demands that airport beer be limited to two units per person after a really messy journey.
– They think that the intake should be checked via the boarding card, says travel expert Lottie Knutson.
Ryanair requires Europe’s airports to stop after two alcoholic units before the trip. This is because passengers get too drunk and hinder air travel.
Recently, the airline sued a traveler for more than SEK 170,000 after they were forced to make an emergency landing when the man disturbed the order on board. That sum should correspond to what Ryanair had to pay for the unexpected landing as well as extra accommodation costs and expenses for the passengers who had to spend the night in Porto, the company wrote in a press release.
Lottie Knutson: May involve an emergency landing
It is not the first time they have come up with a similar demand. Already in 2018, Ryanair started talking about limiting alcohol, even then after a messy trip. They want to implement this as passengers risk getting too drunk and causing trouble on board.
Lottie Knutson, travel expert, thinks that the proposal makes sense and believes that there is a lot of alcohol – but also drugs.
– It is common for people to be refused. You can also be warned by the staff, they stop serving drinks on board, for example. But in the worst case, which happens quite often, it is rowdy passengers who create extreme anxiety in the cabin. This may mean having to make an emergency landing to throw this person off. Then it will be expensive for the airline and for the person who caused everything, she says in Efter fem.
That’s how it should be checked
She believes that there are many people afraid of flying who choose to get drunk before departure – but that many only think about themselves.
– It will not only be difficult for the flying staff and expensive for the messy one, but also very unpleasant for 300 people, fellow passengers. It creates a very unpleasant atmosphere when you are locked in a small tin tube at an altitude of 10,000 meters, she says.
Will it be possible to regulate?
– It can probably work. The airports already regulate the purchase of alcohol, so-called duty-free spirits and so on, via the boarding card. Ryanair envisages that the intake should be controlled via the boarding card. But, those who really misbehave always find ways.