Originally Posted by
HercDiver
My point was that in the AF you can say "hey, put on another hours worth of fuel because I want to." That is different from the 121 world.
Not sure where you work. But I NEVER had a problem.
Sure, the company may have come out with "fuel initiatives" or whatever from the mainline partner that's paying for the gas. But that plane didn't move till I got the gas I wanted. Sure, the Dx'er may have balked over it. I didn't care, put it in the computer that it was the CA's request for the gas. I don't care. What's the CP gonna do? Call me because I was dx'd into an uncontrolled field in a non radar environment, at night, that has local yocals buzzing around at all hours that don't self announce on unicom and cause us to go around. And there isn't another strip for 100+ miles around it in case billy bob, his brother darrel, and his other brother darrel screws up and shuts down east Jesus North Dakota Regional Regional Airport and they gave us hardly anything more than taxi+burn+FAR reserve + 5-10 mins of ACF on a plane that is burning 5-10% more on average than what the software says it does? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I'll carpet dance that crap all day long.
Something something.....more conservative approach....something something will prevail.....something something..........