it will only work if you ban sales at the duty free shops too

Many people drink to calm their fear of Flying. The " STAG " and " HEN " parties will not stop their inebriated behavior. Those that are selling Alcohol, will not stop. Too many Company's ,including The Flying Carriers, are making lots of profit from Alcohol sales. . I do not think there is an answer, unless very strict rules and banning orders are introduced. Serious fines applied to those causing emergency diverted landings, and barring from Flying again could stop drunkenness..

If the Government are going to go through with this then to me it's good news, but Airlines should also take some responsibility and stop serving alcohol on board their planes!

The British have a very disrespectful attitude to alcohol. It is a legalised drug that has terrible consequences. Actually bars make a higher profit margin on the sale of non alcoholic drinks.

Oliver Reed was always ready for a few "befores" and so goes our Great Country

I travel to Mallorca from Edinburgh 4 or 5 times a year and have done for many years and I have never once seen antisocial behaviour likely to cause offence. I also like a drink early in the morning, why not? While I accept no bad incident should ever be tolerated there are laws and rules in place that should be enforced better. Banning early morning drinking like Jet2 have done is only a token gesture as they know their profits are less affected at that time. They and the airports sell a lot more drink later in the day.

It’s all about profit.The airports will not agree because they sell as much alcohol in the Bars and then simply pass the drunks onto the flights who in 99% of cases let them on the planes.How many times have we seen alcohol served to passengers obviously the worse for drink.Again it’s about profit and meeting targets for aircraft staff.

Its not early morning drink thats the problem, its a few idiots whos body can't handle alcohol, which can also be found on any UK beer street at 4am in the morning.

A limit of two drinks, should be brought in and a chitty with the persons name on it should be printed out at the time of booking or sent out to the passenger if they do not have the internet and the chitty and passport presented when getting a drink,either before boarding or on the aircraft so that non-drinkers or friends can not give their chitty to someone else. Two drinks is roughly the drink drive limit so should be the limit prior to or when on the flight as anyone who has drunk more than this can endanger the aircraft and passengers in the event of an emergency.

Another way these idiots that wish to drink before an early morning flight could be to buy a bottle of sprits in Duty Free, then drink it, or add or say bottles of coke for the flights. I have seen for sale small bottles of sprits in Duty Free. I would also ban the sale of these bottles and anything under 70cl. One drink on the ground is 2 in the air, and people should realise this. Probably, most drunks are just once or twice a year flyers.