{"id":276595,"date":"2025-07-20T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276595\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:27:11","slug":"nine-posh-us-teens-busted-at-heathrow-airport-after-causing-drunken-disturbance-on-chaotic-virgin-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276595\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine &#8216;posh&#8217; US teens busted at Heathrow Airport after causing drunken disturbance on chaotic Virgin flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine wealthy American teens were busted at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport this week after causing a drunken uproar on a chaotic Virgin Atlantic flight from Los Angeles, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The rowdy hooligans \u2014 ages 17 and 18 \u2014 were on a school trip Monday when they allegedly used fake IDs to score booze before smuggling it onto their 10-hour transatlantic flight out of California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/drunk-us-teens-arrested-heathrow-chaos-virgin-atlantic-flight-la-b1239018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the London Standard reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teens went on a wild mid-flight bender, \u201cscreaming and running amok\u201d at 30,000 feet as their horrified teachers and flight crew scrambled to control the drunken mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Atlantic Airways check-in area at Heathrow Airport. Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese posh kids couldn\u2019t handle their booze,\u201d a source<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/35920046\/drunk-school-kids-virgin-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told The Sun.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids bought booze before the flight, then smuggled it on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan police removed the teens \u2013 believed to be from affluent families \u2013 from the plane and arrested them upon landing in London, the British outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nine teens were arrested after the plane landed at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport on Monday. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>No charges were reportedly filed, but officials opted instead to revoke their electronic travel authorizations \u2013 barring them from entering the country and attending their planned summer camps across Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The airline initially refused to fly the troublemakers home \u2013 but later split them up on separate flights to various US cities, putting their final destination in their parents\u2019 hand, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No charges were filed but the children were barred from entering the country.  REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d like to apologize to customers for any inconvenience caused following the arrival of the VS008 at London Heathrow on 14th July, due to disruptive passengers being apprehended by the authorities,\u201d a Virgin spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/disruptive-teens-arrested-after-allegedly-causing-chaos-on-flight-to-london-11775520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is now a matter for the police, and we are unable to comment any further. The safety and welfare of our people and our customers is always our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virgin did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine wealthy American teens were busted at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport this week after causing a drunken uproar on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[64116,748,75778,393,2592,4884,257,556,16,15,87572,12611,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-276595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-drunk","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-flights","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unruly-passengers","19":"tag-virgin-atlantic","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114883909582778314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}