UK airport drinking limits could soon change, it has been warned.

Ryanair is calling for fresh curbs on passengers and holidaymakers jetting off to the likes of Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza and even the Canaries.

Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary wants airports to change their drinking rules to curb anti-social behaviour and outbursts on flights.

The 63-year-old has called for alcohol limits in airports amid a rise in disorder on flights.

“It’s not that easy for airlines to identify people who are inebriated at the gate, particularly if they are boarding with two or three others,” he said recently, per BirminghamLive.

O'Leary has suggested that limiting passengers to just two drinks before they get on board could be the solution.

O'Leary said: “As long as they can stand up and shuffle they will get through. Then when the plane takes off we see the misbehaviour. We don’t want to begrudge people having a drink.

"But we don’t allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000 feet.”

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Back in January, Ryanair said it is “time that EU authorities take action” to help prevent such incidents by intervening to limit the consumption of alcohol at airport bars.

It said: “We fail to understand why passengers at airports are not limited to two alcoholic drinks, using their boarding pass in exactly the same way they limit duty-free sales.

“This would result in safer and better passenger behaviour on board aircraft and a safer travel experience for passengers and crews all over Europe.”