Originally Posted by
RobDBA
In over 20 years of flying at least once a month with mainly BA and BMI, in all cabins apart from First, I have never seen any problem caused by alcohol at any time of the day never mind the morning. If this is a budget airline problem it should be solved by the budget airlines not by government - breathalyzer tests on departure with a certain level automatically refused maybe?
(To be clear, apart from a very occasional bucks fizz, this would not affect me at all as I am not a morning drinker. I just think it would be stupid to impact the vast majority who drink responsibly just because of a few idiots flying from Luton)
I completely agree with this. The overall level of education and manners experienced in low cost airlines and airports is very different. If they can't contain the hordes, then it could make sense for some terminals to pull the plug on booze, but again this should not be a law, rather a common sense approach for low cost airlines/airports to take without damaging the many civilised travellers.