NYBM
Disgruntled wingly passengers can threaten to...?
Having seen the video of the jetbridge catfight in the States recently I really wouldn't care to hazard a guess....
bookworm
If ATPLs/CPLs were taught how to deal with commercial pressure as part of their training course.......
I agree it's not taught at the pre-employment stage but commercial Ops come with some form of "protection"/guidance for the PIC in the form of an Operations manual, at some airlines there may be discussion/teaching of pressure issues in recurrent training, and on multi pilot commercial types you learn a heck off a lot about commercial pressure whilst flying in the RHS, long before people are looking at you as one the individual to decide issues such as whether a flight operates or not.