If you fly with Ryanair, you can buy a scratch off lottery ticket for £1.80. With this ticket you can win fabulous prizes, including a car worth €£36,000, vouchers for flights, new scratch cards but also large cash prizes. A man on board flight FR1724 from Krakow in Poland to East Midlands has eaten his winning ticket worth £8.765.

The man whose name was not disclosed, was according to flight crew frustrated that he could not claim his winnings from the ticket during the flight. When the staff wanted to congratulate the scratch card lottery winner and tell him how he could claim his prize, he apparently got angry at the staff that he could not claim his £8.765 prize immediately. The staff tried to explain that a big lottery prize like this must be confirmed by the scratch card company and that the prize had to be claimed there too. This made the passenger so angry that he ate the winning ticket.

In a statement on their website, spokesperson Stephen McNamara said: "In the last two year’s Ryanair’s scratch cards have given away 10 cars, over €300,000 in cash prizes and over 100,000 flight vouchers. Passengers have always been delighted to claim their large cash prizes after returning home. Unfortunately our latest winner felt that we should have his €10,000 prize kicking around on the aircraft. Yesterday’s events prove that while Ryanair’s scratch cards offer large cash prizes they clearly taste great too! Crew tried to stop the air Gourmet Scratch Card eater by offering him one of our great tasting sandwiches, pizzas or snacks instead, but clearly he had much more expensive tastes! "

Because the lottery prize of £8.765 is unclaimed, Ryanair asks their passengers to vote to which charity the price of £8.765 must go. On ryanair.com you can vote to what charity the price must go, you can choose from:

* a charity for anger management
* a charity for eating disorders
* a charity for Gamblers
* a charity for children with behavioural disorders
* a charity for mental health

Ryanair is no stranger to gambling, they also own an online casino site that runs under Profitable Play Software Limited. Additionally you can during gamble during the flight on the screen before you and play casinos online.