Ryanair is renewing its calls for a pre-flight drink limit after a topless man who missed his flight went on a rampage through Dublin airport yesterday after missing his flight.
Footage shared online showed the man, believed to have been ‘intoxicated’ with a face covering pacing around Terminal 1 and launching items back and forth as bemused passengers looked on.
Dublin airport later confirmed that a passenger had been arrested after causing ‘significant damage to our airport’, as many travelled to celebrate St, Patrick’s Day.
Budget airline Ryanair told Irish outlet Newstalk that following Monday’s incident, it will impose a 10-year ban on the passenger and has renewed its call for a two drink limit at airport bars.
MailOnline has reached out to Ryanair for comment.
Lukas Kaunietis, who unleashed a wrecking spree at the airport yesterday was ‘quickly apprehended’ by Airport Police before being arrested by An Garda Síochána, they said in a statement.
He was later charged with a number of counts of criminal damage.
‘We hope the justice system deals with him appropriately and also that we never see him at Dublin Airport again.’
Shocking video showed a man attacking and throwing furniture around the terminal
At point point he appeared to pick up a stool from a nearby cafe
Dublin Airport confirmed that a man was detained by airport police and then An Garda Síochána
In another clip circling on social media, the man was seen trying to pull wires from built-in pieces of airport equipment around a section of Terminal 1 used for short-haul flights by budget airlines like Ryanair.
It was unclear which flight he had missed.
He struggled to pull a large metal box out of position before throwing it to the floor.
At one point the man flexed his muscles and bounced in his stride as he noticed he was being filmed.
He was also seen throwing chairs and tables attached to a cafe near the gate, BelfastLive reports.
At one point he kicked over a Ryanair baggage weight checker.
Airport furniture was later shown strewn across the terminal as the man was detained by airport police with his arms behind his back.
Gardai confirmed they had arrested a man in his 20s in connection with an incident of criminal damage at the airport.
Back in January, Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary said placing a limit on the amount of alcoholic drinks served to passengers would result in a ‘safer travel experience for passengers and crews’.
Ryanair has said that ollowing Monday’s incident, it will impose a 10-year ban on the passenger and has renewed its call for a two drink limit at airport bars
Ryanair’s call for a two-drink limit was first made by O’Leary in August last year, as he reported an increase in disorder on flights
A Ryanair spokesperson also condemned European governments for ‘repeatedly’ failing to ‘take action when disruptive passengers threaten aircraft safety and force them to divert’.
He went on: ‘It is time that European Union authorities take action to limit the sale of alcohol at airports.
‘Airlines like Ryanair already restrict and limit the sale of alcohol on board our aircraft, particularly in disruptive passenger cases.
‘However, during flight delays, passengers are consuming excess alcohol at airports without any limit on purchase or consumption.’
Ryanair’s call for a two-drink limit was first made by O’Leary in August last year, as he reported an increase in disorder on flights.
O’Leary admitted that the budget airline saw a ‘spike’ of violent disorder among its passengers over the summer, adding that flights to party hotspot Ibiza were often the rowdiest.
‘If the price of putting a drink limit on the airport, where the problem is being created, is putting a drink limit on board the aircraft, we’ve no problem with that’, he told Sky News.
‘The real issue is how do we stop these people getting drunk at airports particularly as, like this summer, we’ve had a huge spike in air traffic control delays.
Ryanair’s recent remarks on drink limits came after the carrier announced that it was starting to take legal action to recover losses against disruptive passengers, as part of a ‘major misconduct clampdown’.
