Ryanair

[HX3]

As an outsider, but more importantly as someone who works in policing, drinking culture in the UK crosses all socio-economic backgrounds and not linked to class. However, Airport drinking is a very Anglo phenomenon, but drinking to excess whilst on holiday is also done by Scandinavians and Germans, some of this is linked to alcohol prices at home and some losing inhibitions away from home.
As for the country having a total breakdown, again with my work I do a lot of cross border liaison and many of the issues we have here are mirrored across Europe, and some they have, we have less of.
I do agree though a pint and a fry up before a flight is not something I’d be doing personally, but to each their own.

 

[Jerry]

I do agree though a pint and a fry up before a flight is not something I’d be doing personally, but to each their own.

I think for many it's the sign that they're on holiday and that they can enjoy themselves and get away from their daily life.

 

[Finger66]

I cant imagine anything I'd like less than any alcoholic drink in the small hours pre dawn...Strong coffee and a bacon sarnie...well now you're talking..
But alcohol at 5am means you really do have a problem

TBF it's something I have done, and will do again, have an alcoholic drink at 0500/0600, in the right circumstances. However what I will say is that I can control how much I drink and certainly know how to behave on an aeroplane, which clearly can't be said for everyone

 

[BCFC]

Yet 6am Ryanair flights sell alcohol…..pot, kettle?

 

[LBA4EVER]

Or perhaps earning too much money if they can afford to get drunk on airport prices!

Seriously though the Locos have brought this on themselves because they have opened flying up to the masses whereas before it was perhaps a little more elitist and to the point raised by @LBA4EVER then perhaps different social standards are now at play

You mention about these folk earning too much money to get drunk on airport prices, you may well find its the opposite. More the case of paying £25 for their flight to IBZ, ALC, AGP etc and bad money management, always enough money to get drunk and smoke cigs but never enough money to pay the bills and End of the month 50p to their name! And of course where does the money come? Appears half the country live off benefits these days!

 

[Len Fish]

“MOL stating FR are having to divert once a day, up from once a week a decade ago, due to bad behaviour on board.” Whilst I wouldn’t dispute that behaviour in public has declined over the last ten years the fact that Ryanair now have to divert more frequently due to poor onboard behaviour may also have something to do with the increased number of Ryanair flights over the last decade.

 

[Aviador]

From my days at the airport, from memory, most people who would get drunk would be people on delayed flights. Maybe the bar should be asking passengers which flight they're on and refusing sale to those on delayed flights?