One for the road?

[flapsforty]

What some of you seem to have missed is the fact that this is a case not of a FO being concerned but of No1 CC worrying about what she needs to do.
A very different situation.

Whichever way you slice it, all the old inhibitors come into play when CC is concerned about cockpit's crew ability.
Rank, age, authority, percieved superiority, and usually the gender gap. How qualified are YOU to comment on the captain's level of intoxication if the FO doesn't refuse to fly with him???

Voicing concern directly is almost impossible. That might sound unlikely and exaggerated, but it is not. I am a forthright person, not afraid of confrontations. But the one time I have had to do this I was nervous as hell. And that time it wasn't even the captain but the FO, and lucky for me the captain was a woman of the approachable kind!
It did teach me that next time, if it ever happens again, I will simply pull my cabin crew off the AC telling the Captain why in a neutral manner, and then give the head of the CC department and the chief pilot a call.

London-flyer if all else fails, your friend might want to get in touch with CHIRP.
Their programme has been extended to include cabin crew members in 2001, and there is a phone number and a mail addy on their site.

I wish her strength in dealing with this.
It's an ungrateful task. A consolation is the fact that once you have taken action, you sleep a lot better at night!