{"id":257,"date":"2026-05-07T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/07\/airport-drinkers-ryanair-proposal-ban-alcohol-early"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:18:21","slug":"d0ef7395740878965e4a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Dawn airport drinkers call out Ryanair boss on proposal to ban \u2018holiday ritual\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stansted passengers disagree that stopping airports serving alcohol before early flights will reduce bad behaviourFor most people, the idea of a pint with breakfast is pretty grim. But at the Wetherspoons in Stansted\u2019s departure lounge on Thursday morning, it appeared to be the beverage of choice.\u201cIt\u2019s a holiday ritual,\u201d said Dee Wood, 60, a waste policy officer, who was enjoying a pint while waiting to board her Alicante-bound morning flight. \u201cIt\u2019s like the start of holiday,\u201d said her friend Ra<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/07\/airport-drinkers-ryanair-proposal-ban-alcohol-early\">Read original at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stansted passengers disagree that stopping airports serving alcohol before early flights will reduce bad behaviourFor most people, the idea of a pint with breakfast is pretty grim. But at the Wethersp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}