Just got an email cancelling my train from London to Brussels on 9 July.
Fortunately rebooking online was easy.
The email said
“your train on Thursday 09 July from London St Pancras Int'l to Brussels Midi / Zuid has been cancelled due to the impact of the exceptional heatwave.”
I was on Ryanair UK flight RK129 (Stansted to Belfast) yesterday and something struck me as odd.
As soon as the inflight service started, I tried to order a beer using the Ryanair app. Instead, the cabin crew told me that they couldn’t sell any alcohol because it was a domestic flight.
That doesn’t sound right to me. I’m almost certain I’ve bought alcohol on UK domestic flights before (although I can’t remember which airline), and I can’t find anything suggesting UK law prohibits it.
What makes it even stranger is that the Ryanair app was quite happy to let me add alcohol to my order right up until the crew member came to my seat and told me this.
So I’m wondering:
Has anyone else been told this by Ryanair?
Is this actually a Ryanair policy on certain UK domestic routes?
Was the crew member simply mistaken?
Or was there some other operational reason (e.g. no stock) that they didn’t explain?
Interested to know whether this was a genuine policy or just a one-off.
ETA: I contacted Ryanair on chat and they confirmed this is not policy and they do sell alcohol on domestic flights.