Muslim Flight Attendant Refuses to Serve Alcohol- Do Republicans support her?

[MADem]

171. No--that's not true. In many states, cashiers and servers CAN serve/sell alcohol if they are

"supervised" by someone of adult age. Here are a few examples;

Illinois (where United has a hub): https://www.illinois.gov/ilcc/about/Pages/FAQs-legal.aspx Age 18, you can serve alcohol.

California and TX, 18, Nebraska 19, Utah--21 but sometimes 16, depending : http://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2014/02/is-it-legal-to-serve-alcohol-if-youre-under-21.html

So it's not as clear as you believe. I would not be at all surprised if FAA has a "server" regulation that allows underaged people of majority age (i.e. over 18) to serve booze in a supervised environment.

And United Airlines isn't a puddlejumper airline, either. They have large planes with large aircrews. If you have a FAA mandated minimum crew of five flight attendants, for example, you've got some slack there--put a "special" person in the galley heating meals, picking up trash, and responding to calls from pax.

This airline where the FAs are complaining that this woman's accommodations are unreasonable, though, is tiny--some planes only have ONE flight attendant on them, to do everything....and if this woman cannot perform all those duties she is USELESS on those flights. She's not "fully available" to scheduling, and the work-arounds get onerous. She basically never has to do the "worst" flights because she can't do the job. Even if she is on a plane with one other FA, that FA gets an unreasonable burden, having to do most of the work because she can't.