Landflap - I can understand what you are saying but we have a responsibility to those on the ground as well. Passengers just add a little extra work to our duties so departing empty, whilst fully understandable, means they could also have operated with passengers. You are either fit to fly or you are not. Only if it was the CC who were affected, which is totally understable, would a different outcome be more appropriate. But I don't think this was the case.
What would be justice is if the real offenders were taken to the financially taken to the cleaners.