......that is exactly what I took from the encounter and what I try my damnedest to instill in my FOs
Cityfan is a
Captain so he wasn't an FO on the flight. So unless he is
the captain, he wasn't there as a direct witness and is going by what he was told. It's still a "he said, she said" situation; Captains defending Captains. FA's defending FA's. Nothing has changed until we hear the company's decision on whether the diverson was
justified in the circumstances. That will likely leak out some day.
Let me ask you, if the First Officer was refusing to do what the Captain said, and was mounting an insurrection with other crew members, threatening his food and telling him HE was in control of the crew, what would you say THEN?
Interesting comment, especially the "threatening food" part. How exactly would that work?