Yeah, I know every Captain would like to have a little John Wayne in them and at times take some crewmembers by the collar and slap some sense into them (ala “The High and the Mighty”)… but come on folks back to reality. It seems as if the skipper went a bit over the top on this one. If he stalwartly felt the Purser to be inadequate and or noncompliant, as PIC of the entire crew, he should have given one of the F/As an infield promotion. Then he and those F/Os present during the incident prepare an in-flight incident report to be submitted to the C/P and C/FA for review and disciplinary actions .

Then let the fur fly after all the fare paying passengers and other crewmembers arrived at their intended destination… without any inconvenient diversions.

PPRune, a counterpart to APC is running a thread on this subject too.

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...ad-purser.html
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