Why would the Flight Crew or Cabin Crew have anything to do with deciding on the offload of passengers??? What kind of show are they running at PB? This is a job for the ground staff, dispatcher, etc. Maybe they were all laying low elsewhere...
If PB pax are anything like
VB pax, they should've just left a slab of Victoria Bitter and a bucket of KFC in the aerobridge to entice them out. Not called
VB for nothing..........