Air carrier captain reported a group of passengers appeared to be intoxicated during boarding. One o...

Narrative:

During boarding; flight attendants noticed four passengers that were being loud and disruptive and using foul language. There was discussion on the possibility of some of those in that group being intoxicated. Ground supervisor was notified and came to address the situation. He elected to remove one of the passengers in that group. The determination was made between the crew to continue with the other customers in that group.approximately 30 minutes before arrival in ZZZ1 the in-flight crew called the cockpit to request another ground supervisor meet the aircraft due to those remaining three individuals in that group refused to comply with putting their masks over their nose and mouth. Dispatch was not notified at the time due to task loading during the descent and coordinating with ground ops and the usual business during the descent/landing phase of flight. After helping ensure the situation was being resolved upon arrival; I neglected to contact dispatch.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier Captain reported a group of passengers appeared to be intoxicated during boarding. One of the passengers was removed from the flight; the others were reportedly not compliant with face mask policy during the flight.

Narrative: During boarding; flight attendants noticed four passengers that were being loud and disruptive and using foul language. There was discussion on the possibility of some of those in that group being intoxicated. Ground Supervisor was notified and came to address the situation. He elected to remove one of the passengers in that group. The determination was made between the crew to continue with the other Customers in that group.Approximately 30 minutes before arrival in ZZZ1 the in-flight crew called the cockpit to request another Ground Supervisor meet the aircraft due to those remaining three individuals in that group refused to comply with putting their masks over their nose and mouth. Dispatch was not notified at the time due to task loading during the descent and coordinating with Ground Ops and the usual business during the descent/landing phase of flight. After helping ensure the situation was being resolved upon arrival; I neglected to contact Dispatch.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1760348
Time
Date	202009
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 125 Flight Crew Type 9750
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Passenger Misconduct

Air carrier captain reported a group of passengers appeared to be intoxicated during boarding. One of the passengers was removed from the flight; the others were reportedly not compliant with face mask policy during the flight.