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		</div><p>New aviation minister Lord Ahmad has announced he will examine the way alcohol is sold at airports amid a spate of incidents on planes involving drunk passengers.</p>
<p>He also pledged to ensure the way in which unruly travellers are stopped from going through airport departure gates is “fit for purpose”.</p>
<p>Recent police statistics show hundreds of passengers were arrested on suspicion of being drunk on a plane or at an airport in the last two years.</p>
<p>Figures obtained following freedom of information requests showed at least 442 people were held between March 2014 and March 2016.</p>
<p>In an interview with the Press Association, Lord Ahmad said: “If you’re a young family travelling on a plane, you want to go from point A to B, you don’t want to be disrupted.</p>
<p>“I don’t think we want to kill merriment altogether, but I think it’s important that passengers who board planes are also responsible and have a responsibility to other passengers, and that certainly should be the factor which we bear in mind.</p>
<p>“In terms of specific regulations of timings of outlets (which sell alcohol) and how they operate, clearly I want to have a look at that.”</p>
<p>Lord Ahmad was appointed aviation minister by Theresa May when she became Prime Minister earlier this month.</p>
<p>His predecessor, Robert Goodwill, revealed last year that several airlines had written to the Government to warn about the number of alcohol-related incidents.</p>
<p>In February six men on a stag party were arrested by German police after a mid-air brawl caused a Ryanair flight from Luton to Bratislava, Slovakia, to divert to Berlin.</p>
<p>Another recent case involved a female passenger punching an easyJet pilot in the face after being ordered to leave an aircraft before it took off from Manchester in May.</p>
<p>Glasgow and Manchester airports have trialled a scheme with shops selling alcohol in sealed bags in a bid to reduce problems on flights.</p>
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Kate Moss, Johnny Depp and the dumb celebs that are clueless need to banned from drinking in the plane period.