Originally Posted by
Often1
The original fail was serving anybody six drinks. Smoking in the lav shows what impaired judgment can do for passenger safety. As this was reported to law enforcement, there will be follow up by UA as well. That will likely lead to some action against the FA.
IANAL but I don't see why there should be action against the FA. I have known guys who were perfectly fine after a half-dozen shots or mixed drinks in an hour and the flight was considerably longer than that. Is yucking it up grounds for stopping service? What are the odds that if s/he DID stop serving them drinks after 3, 4, 5 ... said miscreants wouldn't have come straight to FT or BA or TPG to complain about the pig-headed FA stopping service without cause?
IMO, this misbehavior is squarely on the smoker, not on the FA.