For that matter, the detective work the OP did and posted here, above and beyond any readily available news article at the time of posting, with direct pointers for anyone with access to icrew.

Contingent on the charge/evidence you’d think? Requires a sponsor. About 10 pilots a month enroll year to year on average. They claim 90% success for those achieving completion.

Hims is a rehabilitation agreement with the faa/dot. It’s a progression ladder that puts ideal case airmen into an 8 year minimum, immediate notice, sample clean & go regimen. Provisional release to long term monitoring (biannual eval by a hims AME) in perpetuity. Typical hims eval triggers are initial or random sample fails, dui arraignment, refusal to test. DMV bac .15 or higher is straight into program hopper threshold.

Drinks are served legally almost anywhere crews layover. Billions of people across the planet enjoy alcoholic beverages, dare I say, habitually. Pilots are people. Stopping before the line gets crossed has never been simple math. When it comes to reporting for duty, hard to be too paranoid about hims.

Hearing that this may be the case. Either way, another great example of not throwing your fellow pilots under the bus.

May I just say the stock (AI generated?) photo of a beaming pilot in the cockpit with shiny Ray Bans and a “thumbs up” in the context of this story is unintentionally hilarious?

May have well titled this article “Should I Be Concerned if My Pilot Looks Too Happy?”

(Not alcohol and flying, obviously. Several US pilots went to prison in Europe in the past few years over this. Ain’t worth it.)

The Northwest pilots back in 1990 were all male of course and that was big international news and made all the late show comedy circuits but of course there weren’t many female pilots back then .

FAs too. Just don’t make the headlines nearly as heavy when it’s them.

I think it’s probably relevant only in the fact that this ( if it’s true) would be the only time I’ve ever heard of a female pilot being drunk . It’s 99 percent male pilots that you hear of 🤷‍♂️

what if the pilot was Chewbacca would it matter ?

So on what basis was the pilot removed? I see comments on the FB group stating "no test was failed"... Sweden is not a third world country there must have been some sort of basis for removal.

The other crew member(s) might have thrown the flag... I'd really really hate to have to do that, but if backed into a corner I would. Especially overseas, who knows what legal twists might exist there. Accessory after the fact to operating a commercial airliner under the influence?