Sir, – Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has called for a ban on early morning preflight airport drinking (Transport, May 6th), a noble call you might say, but is it really?
Why not go a step further and just stop selling alcohol at airports and on aircraft?
The problem is not just the early drinking it is the accessibility of alcohol at airports and on aircraft. Passengers can buy alcohol in the duty free and consume it on board if they so wish.
Is it really that important that passengers should have access to copious amounts of alcohol when the airline staff have first hand experience of the danger associated with passengers who are highly intoxicated?
RM Block
It’s not as if you can open the door at 20,000ft and ask them to leave. So, Mr O’Leary I’m sorry, but half measures are not the answer to this problem. – Yours, etc,
JOHN HIGGINS,
Ballina.
Co Mayo.
