Originally Posted by
NeedstoFly
The Azores police seem to disagree with you.
Only very anecdotal and from my own terrible memory, but I don't recall many stories of flights being diverted stating that those passengers were arrested on arrival and charged with any offence. Again anecdotally, these stories often end with the line 'after sobering up the passenger was allowed to continue his journey'.
Maybe some legal experts could comment on which laws a British owner carrier traveling between the LGW and KIN would be privy to in this instance?
A (probably bad) analogy might be an SV flight from LHR - JED. Passenger smuggled alcohol onboard, refuses CC requests to stop, becomes abusive and is ultimately restrained,plane diverts to somewhere like FRA. Now drinking on a plane is not illegal in Germany, does mean the SV cabin crew acted without reason?