If the issue arose overhead Central Europe, and they were diverted all the way to Prestwick and then all held on board, would it not have been more expedient to have turned overhead Germany and gone back to Cairo, where they would presumably have been treated with a lot more common sense than appears to have been the case - and got off the plane quicker as well.
Last edited by WHBM; 15th Jun 2013 at 22:56.