Hi Flyblue
Of course pax will blame us for being the cause of a delay...whatever the reason..all the worse because the crew were guilty of drinking on duty.
Another flight crew was immediately dispatched to HEL by the way and the flight left 3 hrs delayed. I know that the pax were okay onboard and did not cause too much of a fuss.
Funnily enough all of the furore about this incident has now died down....so it proves in a way that there is weight to my argument that no one really cares about this.
Finland does have a very big social drinking problem..this is why booze costs so much. They are trying desperately to control a problem that has already spiralled out of control, so the social drinking argument does not apply there. Although this incident was widely reported there.