You’re sipping apple tea in dry Male in the Maldives, off your Turkish Airlines overnighter, and thinking about airport drinks and the Ryanair solution.
Well, maybe not then, as well as being dog tired despite the business class sleep on board from Istanbul, via Dublin.
And the fact that Michael O’Leary was still to formulate the idea in that massive, overactive brain of his.
But the news of a whopping 41% rise in trouble at Scottish airports, and we dare say that’s replicated in similar airports, has us agreeing.
Two drink or not to drink
The bould Michael is suggesting a two-drink limit for passengers before getting on flights.
Which might at first sound draconic but us Jocks aren’t even allowed a drink when attending football grounds to limit the risks of violence.
Airport drinking has, of course, become a custom of holidaying , helped along by the ubiquitous Weatherspoon.
Only for every happy drunk there are leary louts who kick off at the check-out desk.
When they’re told their luggage doesn’t fit and they have to pay an excess fee.
And all before they get on the plane and top up.
Thou shalt not pass
Of course, in the worst cases the yobs on tour will end up abusing the cabin crew and fellow passengers.
And even cause the plane to be diverted for an emergency landing.
All of which disruption can be allayed by following Michael’s solution.
And insisting that passengers show their boarding passes as we do in the gift shops, stationers and pharmacists.
And that way being blocked after two drinks.
Cheers to Ryanair
Now 19-year-old Bandanaman who drank our transatlantic flight from London to JFK dry.
With my old much-lamented party animal Toothy dry would disapprove.
But two drinks should be enough for anybody before they board their flight.
Even those who are nervous fliers and we sympathise.
Now far from wanting to be accused of being a Grinch we should surely look at this for the sake of all passengers.
Because this is the brainchild of the great promoter of budget travel.
Who has been known to give a free drink to passengers after a successful Cheltenham.
Airport drinks and the Ryanair solution, maybe we’ll all look back in the future and sigh that it was ever any other way.
