Originally Posted by Guppydriver95

You are confusing operational control with emergency authority.

When the pax cause a big problem in flight, that can become an emergency. Clearly, the capt can and should deal with that.

At the gate, not only does the capt have no business back there, he/she technically doesn’t have operational control. Most airlines let it slide, but when the plane is at the gate and the door is open, the capt is not in charge.

The company/gate/dispatch still have authority at that point.

Stay out of it. Captain’s authority has nothing to do with these gate situations-any more than it has to do with some fight in a terminal restroom.

Don’t come crying to me when you are the next social media incident everyone is laughing at on late night shows.

Stay the **** out of the back. There be dragons