Originally Posted by
kokonutz
Perhaps those minis WERE from duty-paid supply and but were delivered late. Or had been overlooked. Or there was a limited supply. Or the crew was being lazy during boarding.
It seems a number of BA crew have commented up thread already though so one assumes they have more of an idea about what did happen rather than the speculative reasons you proposed.
Out of interest why are you so adamant at defending the crew and trying to come up with possible reasons to show what they did wasn't wrong? I don't think anyone is suggesting you forced them to break the rules so there is no joint responsibility on your part for what they did. As a general rule I am sure you wouldn't condone or encourage crew to break rules/laws.