Ryanair tells airports to drop security restrictions

RYANAIR boss Michael O’Leary said yesterday the severe restriction imposed on airline passengers by the British Government was “handing extremists an enormous PR victory”.

Ryanair chief executive Mr O’Leary said: “The best way to defeat terrorists and extremists is for ordinary people to continue to live their lives as normal. Because of the additional security restrictions imposed by the Government last Thursday, the shambles at the London airports has been anything but normal.

“The UK Government successfully led the return to normality of the London Underground within two days of the July 7 terrorist attacks. It is important that they now restore security at the London airports to normality and remove some of these nonsensical, and (from a security perspective) totally ineffective restrictions which were introduced last week.