Does Ryanair’s chief have a point – should passengers be limited to two drinks?

Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments.

Alcohol should be banned on the flight too

Michael O’Leary is right – there’s nothing worse than being sat next to a drunk, especially when you are sober.

Also, I can’t understand people who spend a large chunk of their holiday money getting drunk on vastly
overpriced airport drinks only to arrive at their destination with a 
massive hangover. Carlos, Lancashire

Alcohol should be banned completely if passengers are going on a flight. If they are drunk and really bad, it could cause problems and the plane could crash.

If I was on a flight with rowdy drunkards, I would be scared of 
something dangerous happening.

And why are JD Wetherspoon airport pubs allowed to serve alcohol so early in the day?

There’s usually more than one pub in an airport, so how will you be control how many drinks each passenger has? Marilyn Seear, Westcliff-On-Sea

This is a good idea – it would reduce drunken behaviour that might delay a flight. But let’s not kid ourselves: as soon as Michael O’Leary’s aircraft have left their gates, he’ll be encouraging his staff to sell as much alcohol to the passengers as possible.Andrew, Birmingham

Yes, passengers should be limited to two drinks. Flights are journeys in vehicles that involve various safety issues. That aspect is similar to train journeys. M Godden, Liverpool

While we’re at it – how about banning smoking in pub gardens?

Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer wants
to ban smoking in pub gardens. Strange, really, because the garden doesn’t have
a ceiling.

Does he also intend to stop people smoking cannabis while walking down 
the high street, because where I live I smell it every day. Martin Lawrence, South Croydon

Would you let your 15 year old travel without you?

Regarding your article asking whether TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp was right to let her 15-year-old son Oscar go interrailing without parental supervision (Metro, Wed).

I’m with Julie Cook, who says it’s not a problem because young people need
to experience life to become fully functioning adults.

Gillian Harvey, though, has a point in 
disagreeing, saying that before we send our teens out into the wider world, we must be realistic about how worldly they actually are.

However, this is only because so many pre-teens are protected too much from 
the world. Roger Sturge, Bristol

The winter fuel allowance wasn’t a bonus – it was a ‘godsend’

I was incensed to read the comment from Christine Stockwell (MetroTalk, Wed), who says the winter fuel allowance was ‘a bonus, not a necessity’.

We are both pensioners who earn just over the limit to be entitled to any benefits. The winter fuel allowance was a godsend for us and now it has been taken away.

Ms Stockwell also states that she used to ‘fritter’ it away. Well, good for her! Perhaps if she didn’t need it she could have given it to a deserving charity. Angela Leddington, Telford

The head of the Indian Space Research Organisation, S Somanath, says his ‘conscience’ tells him that aliens exist, ‘though I have no proof’ (Metro, Wed).

Although I have no proof, my conscience tells me that I am king of the world, so it must be so.

And I really would be much obliged if you would now all start doing whatever 
I tell you to do. Owen, London

Has the countdown already started?

It’s September 1st on Sunday. Forget Halloween – I expect the big supermarkets will start pushing Christmas upon us. Jingle Bells, anyone? Jim, London

Some might say the Gallagher brothers are after a champagne super cash-in…

There’s only one reason why rock group Oasis are getting back together again (MetroTalk, Thu) and it has nothing to do with brotherly love. It’s purely for money reasons.

I’m not an Oasis fan and I won’t be forking out a fortune to watch two middle-aged feuding brothers smashing guitars – it would be a colossal waste of money. Scott, West London

So, Noel and Liam Gallagher, what first attracted you to the estimated £400million reunion tour? Sara, Cheltenham

Status Quo have knocked out some good numbers down the years, but for Ryan Blackwood (MetroTalk, Thu) to describe Oasis as ‘Manchester’s Status Quo’ is complete nonsense.

Oasis are the last of the great rock bands this country has produced and probably will ever produce.

My advice to them this time, though, would be to stay away from Starmer and the rest of the Downing Street jet-set and concentrate on the tunes. Dec, Essex

Obviously it’s an excellent idea to warn potential ticket-buyers for the Oasis concerts against the activities of scammers. However, having seen the prices for the tickets in question, people might well imagine that a scam is already in progress, might they not?MR Williams, by email

Regarding the correspondence in MetroTalk about misheard song lyrics, it turns out the Hues Corporation were singing ‘Our love is like a ship on the ocean’.

I suppose that does make sense compared with the way I’d been hearing the lyric until recently… BG, Purley