THE issue of drinking on planes has reared its head again, with Ryanair's Michael O'Leary calling for a limit on the amount of booze served to passengers. As flight attendants, we're broadly in favour of any measures that would reduce drinking in our cabins. But there's kind of already a limit in place that passengers just don't know about, that we're able to enforce when we need to.
In this week's blog for Sun Travel , I'll explain exactly what those limits are - and how bringing in a strict rule to restrict passengers' drinking on board could also have its own problems. Firstly, I would absolutely agree that passengers shouldn't be able to drink as much as they're currently allowed to do. Let's face it, drunk people crammed into a tube 30,000 feet in the air with hundreds of strangers and nowhere to go is a recipe for disaster.
Read More on Flight Attendants The summer months are particularly bad and a lot more hectic for us cabin crew members, with a big increase in the number of intoxicated passengers that we have to deal with. It's just an extra element that distracts us from our duties of both keeping people safe and making sure everything in the cabin is okay. That's why, as a team, we keep an eye on the consumption of each passenger , and will let each other know if someone is drinking a little too greedily.
Then we can all collectively make a decision of whether or not we need to cut their supply and refuse them service. Most read in News Travel The limit for us is, .