Illustration by Charlotte Trounce When you arrive at the airport at some ungodly hour, is your first stop coffee and breakfast, or an early morning pint? Readers will be unsurprised to know that I am firmly in the former camp, baulking at extortionate airport prices and rejecting anything that could worsen my inevitable flying headache. But if the outrage to Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary’s call to limit airport licensing hours is anything to go by, I am unusual. My fellow Brits seem to rejoice in a pre-flight tipple or two, in the firm belief that the holiday should begin as soon as they have passed through security. The result, according to O’Leary (whose previous provocative suggestions include standing-only flights and charging for the use of aeroplane toilets mid-air), is a plague of in-flight drunkenness. Ryanair is apparently being forced to divert nearly a flight a day due to disruptive behaviour.…