Ryanair boss says ‘nightmare’ flights to this popular holiday spot are worst for bad behaviour

You head to the airport at 5am and after a trip to Boots and a ‘Spoons breakfast, there’s only one thing for it: a pint.

Airport bevs are somewhat of a UK tradition, but now, airline bosses are saying boozy Brits have gone too far.

Ryanair, Europe’s biggest airline, have seen a ‘notable rise’ in bad behaviour caused by drinking and drugs.

Shockingly, it’s led to assaults on cabin crew, which Ryanair chief executive, Michael O’Leary, says now happen on a weekly basis.

And the worst flight for bad behaviour? None other than the party island of Ibiza.

Michael O’Leary said that, ‘Ibiza is by far and away the worst destination for it,’ with flights departing from regional airports such as Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester being the most likely culprits for passengers getting out of control.

There are countless videos on TikTok of so-called ‘party planes’ heading to the White Isle.

While passengers appear to be loving the raucous start to their holidays, cabin crew in the comments have shared how miserable working on these flights can be.

‘I work for EasyJet as a cabin manager and honestly, my heart drops when I see Ibiza on my flight list,’ wrote on commenter.

‘It’s extremely difficult to settle a crowd like this,’ added another. And a third said: ‘As a flight attendant, I would simply cry.’

Other passengers also shared their concerns. ‘I’d be hyperventilating,’ said one nervous flyer. ‘This is my nightmare’, added a second while a third had an interesting solution: ‘I’d rather walk.’

Worryingly, cabin crew have also been sexually assaulted on flights. Last month, a man was convicted of sexually assaulting a flight attendant on a Ryanair plane from Newcastle to Majorca in 2023.

Michael O’Leary also added that airport staff are unable to tell which passengers have been drinking heavily at airports, making it hard to stamp out the behaviour.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph he said: ‘As long as they can stand up and shuffle they will get through. Then when the plane takes off we see the misbehaviour.

‘We don’t want to begrudge people having a drink. But we don’t allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000 feet.’

As a result, he’s now proposing a two-drink rule on holiday makers flying out from UK airports.

He said: ‘Most of our passengers show up an hour before departure. That’s sufficient for two drinks. But if your flight is delayed by two or three hours you can’t be guzzling five, six, eight, ten pints of beer. Go and have a coffee or a cup of tea. It’s not an alcoholics’ outing.”

‘What we’re asking for won’t affect profit. The bars can still sell their drinks and food.’

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