"The CAL clowns who took off from a taxiway at right angles to their assigned runway at ANC in Jan/02 were not demoted, as far as I know. Fair?"
You can be assured that those involved with this incident were all permenately removed from flying duties after they landed from the flight. The FO is still with the company in a non flying, non operational capacity.
CAL has recently been very quick to deal with safety issues like this.