What else will people do in an airport?
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary says passengers should be restricted to two alcoholic drinks in airport bars to try to curb drunken violence on flights (Metro, Thu).
It follows as surge in attacks and misbehaviour, with incidents occurring on a weekly basis.
I fly a lot for business and pleasure, often with Ryanair, and I’ve never seen any drunken or loutish behaviour on any flight I’ve taken.
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but from my point of view I can’t see any reason why this should be brought in.
Given the inevitable delays that happen with any travel, what else is there to do in an airport other than have a drink and a chat, whether it’s a coffee or a beer?
How does O’Leary suggest they police the airport lounges that are used more and more where free drinks and food are given in comfortable surroundings for a fee or a membership?
Alcohol should be banned on the flight too
Michael O’Leary is right – there’s nothing worse than being sat next to a drunk, especially when you are sober.
Also, I can’t understand people who spend a large chunk of their holiday money getting drunk on vastly overpriced airport drinks only to arrive at their destination with a massive hangover.
Alcohol should be banned completely if passengers are going on a flight. If they are drunk and really bad, it could cause problems and the plane could crash.
If I was on a flight with rowdy drunkards, I would be scared of something dangerous happening.
And why are JD Wetherspoon airport pubs allowed to serve alcohol so early in the day?
There’s usually more than one pub in an airport, so how will you be control how many drinks each passenger has?
This is a good idea – it would reduce drunken behaviour that might delay a flight. But let’s not kid ourselves: as soon as Michael O’Leary’s aircraft have left their gates, he’ll be encouraging his staff to sell as much alcohol to the passengers as possible.
Yes, passengers should be limited to two drinks. Flights are journeys in vehicles that involve various safety issues. That aspect is similar to train journeys.
While we’re at it – how about banning smoking in pub gardens?
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer wants to ban smoking in pub gardens. Strange, really, because the garden doesn’t have a ceiling.
Does he also intend to stop people smoking cannabis while walking down the high street, because where I live I smell it every day.
Would you let your 15 year old travel without you?
Regarding your article asking whether TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp was right to let her 15-year-old son Oscar go interrailing without parental supervision (Metro, Wed).
I’m with Julie Cook, who says it’s not a problem because young people need to experience life to become fully functioning adults.
Gillian Harvey, though, has a point in disagreeing, saying that before we send our teens out into the wider world, we must be realistic about how worldly they actually are.
However, this is only because so many pre-teens are protected too much from the world.
The winter fuel allowance wasn’t a bonus – it was a ‘godsend’
I was incensed to read the comment from Christine Stockwell (MetroTalk, Wed), who says the winter fuel allowance was ‘a bonus, not a necessity’.
We are both pensioners who earn just over the limit to be entitled to any benefits. The winter fuel allowance was a godsend for us and now it has been taken away.
Ms Stockwell also states that she used to ‘fritter’ it away. Well, good for her! Perhaps if she didn’t need it she could have given it to a deserving charity.
The head of the Indian Space Research Organisation, S Somanath, says his ‘conscience’ tells him that aliens exist, ‘though I have no proof’ (Metro, Wed).
Although I have no proof, my conscience tells me that I am king of the world, so it must be so.
And I really would be much obliged if you would now all start doing whatever I tell you to do.
Has the countdown already started?
It’s September 1st on Sunday. Forget Halloween – I expect the big supermarkets will start pushing Christmas upon us. Jingle Bells, anyone?
Some might say the Gallagher brothers are after a champagne super cash-in…
There’s only one reason why rock group Oasis are getting back together again (MetroTalk, Thu) and it has nothing to do with brotherly love. It’s purely for money reasons.
I’m not an Oasis fan and I won’t be forking out a fortune to watch two middle-aged feuding brothers smashing guitars – it would be a colossal waste of money.
So, Noel and Liam Gallagher, what first attracted you to the estimated £400million reunion tour?
Status Quo have knocked out some good numbers down the years, but for Ryan Blackwood (MetroTalk, Thu) to describe Oasis as ‘Manchester’s Status Quo’ is complete nonsense.
Oasis are the last of the great rock bands this country has produced and probably will ever produce.
My advice to them this time, though, would be to stay away from Starmer and the rest of the Downing Street jet-set and concentrate on the tunes.
Obviously it’s an excellent idea to warn potential ticket-buyers for the Oasis concerts against the activities of scammers. However, having seen the prices for the tickets in question, people might well imagine that a scam is already in progress, might they not?MR Williams, by email
Regarding the correspondence in MetroTalk about misheard song lyrics, it turns out the Hues Corporation were singing ‘Our love is like a ship on the ocean’.
I suppose that does make sense compared with the way I’d been hearing the lyric until recently…
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