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Wetherspoon’s global takeover starts at Alicante airport in Spain – Dilip Kuner gives his verdict

WELL, it’s official. Wetherspoon, the UK’s much loved (?) haven of cheap pints and dodgy carpets, is taking over the world – and it’s starting at Alicante Airport.

If you’ve ever dreamed of sipping a pint while waiting for your Ryanair flight to Stansted at the end of a long and arduous holiday, your prayers have been answered. This is the future we deserve.

Now, I’m no stranger to the joys of a Wetherspoon pint, and I’m certainly no snob when it comes to airport food (seriously, how many of us have had a half-hearted burger at Heathrow?), but opening the first international Wetherspoon at an airport feels like some sort of fever dream.

If you can’t get the full experience of questionable pub carpets and bemused staff in a town centre, why not bring it to the concourse of a major European airport?

It’s got all the hallmarks of the Wetherspoon charm: 93 square metres of unassuming interior, an external terrace for those who like to down their ale with a view of the runway, and a menu that’s a love letter to both Britain and Spain.

Breakfasts, burgers, and – because we’re in Spain now – garlic prawns and Spanish omelettes. I guess the English breakfast isn’t quite foreign enough.

Tim Martin, the Brexit-loving man behind the empire that is now expanding into the EU, claims that the pub will be a hit with........

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