“What the Pilot should have done is come back to her seat
shook her hand and said Well Done. Had he done that, this
would not even be a story.”
Exactly. She now is the one that can sue the airline and Delta Airlines takes a hit. People will only remember that Delta had a drunk pilot and tried to shut a person up for saying so, even if the pilot was not drunk the story will still be remembered that way.
“She now is the one that can sue the airline..”
Sue for what?