Random story, but it kind of reminds me of when I was at Coex and we had a pilot only rule of thumb of 3000lbs as the sort of kinda min fuel on the E145. The company wanted to a) take us out of the loop on ordering fuel and b) start using the real min fuel of 1800 lbs or somewhere around there. For good reason.

Well right before they decided to go lower I'm doing a CLE-MSP flight the FMS pops up and says we'll land with 2900 lbs. Captain panics and wants to divert to MKE which was not on the flight plan anywhere. I said, okay, let me tell dispatch you want to divert. NO TIME! Well, it's 30 minutes behind us... NO TIME! MUST GO! TELL ATC WE NEED PRIORITY HANDLING! (all I could think was don't laugh, I think he's serious)

We made it to MSP. We landed with 2900 lbs and he filled out an ASAP. I bet that dude had an aneurism when it dropped to 1800ish lbs. Actually, I think he was bound to have an aneurism anyways.

The way I think we came to accept this was that we weren't the ones ordering fuel anymore. You couldn't blame us if the fuel we were given turned out not to be enough and we diverted. Which of course costs lots of money and if it happened often then they'd adjust up. I don't think they had to, it ended up working and we just reset our personal minimums.

but it was kind of like "this is your problem, not my problem." I'll land with plenty of fuel, but whether that place was the intended destination was up to them and their computer.