Michael O’Leary’s call for airport drink limit would be ‘very difficult to manage’ – Corry
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary’s call for a two-drink limit on airport passengers would be very difficult to manage, an aviation expert has said. He told the UK’s Daily Telegraph that confrontations between passengers have become increasingly common. “We don’t want to begrudge people having a drink, but we don’t allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000 feet,” he said. Air and Travel Magazine Editor Eoghan Corry told Lunchtime Live there are already controls in place. “There is an obligation on cabin crew under international aviation law not to serve someone who has had too much to drink,” he said. “It not really a personal thing, they are not allowed to do it because they can be held accountable for it.” Mr Corry said a drink limit would be “very difficult to manage” at airports. “The airport isn’t one bar run by the DAA, it’s a series of franchises,” he said. “Everybody is in there running their business as businesses, they also tend to have different operating hours than your traditional publican. “So it would be difficult to say, ‘You’re having two drinks in this bar’. “Where the real policing of this takes place is at the gate – if someone is too intoxicated, they will not be allowed board”. Mr Corry said sometimes alcohol is not the only issue involved. Credit to : Newstalk