The only accommodation they could make for her is one where she is moved to a small short run commuter plane which serves nothing.if you're right, she loses.no. that's not a reasonable accommodation. a bartender's primary duty is to mix and serve alcoholic drinks.and if that is the case she loses. if, however, they could assign her to flights that do not serve alcohol, or to duties that don't require her to hand out alcoholic drinks, or if there is a way to partner her with another attendant that would hand out the drinks and doing so would not cause an unreasonable burden they are obligated to do soIt would cause the airline to provide maybe another flight attendant, or have flight attendants try to juggle position when someone wanted booze. On smaller planes (of which this seems to be an airline that flies them) there may only be one fight attendant (I have been on a small CRJ with only one).
So basically the whole flight has to go dry because of the flight attendant?
That leads to an unreasonable situation.
So a Muslim could theoretically be hired by a bar to be a bartender, but if the other bartenders could cover for her, she could be allowed to stand there, and just be ready to serve sodas to people?
And one of the primary duties of a flight attendant is to serve things to the passengers, including alcohol.
Reasonable accommodation does not usually involve removal of an entire duty of an employee, which is what the flight attendant in this case is looking for.
if there was a reasonable accommodation they could make then she wins.
it's really that simple