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Old 04-05-2018 | 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by ChickHicks
It’s for real. Talked to a friend of mine, and he got sent to the CPO for adding 500lbs. In the most professional manner he explained why he wanted every pound of fuel. CP was very impressed and wanted the Captain to talk to the dispatchers. (And this guy is a 175 captain)

This should not be an issue! Putting captains on a “list” is despicable.

I added fuel yesterday. Was given 250lbs for taxi, wrong arrival flow into DFW, and last fix on the arrival should be at 11,000 ft, but was filed at FL240. GMAFB.

90% of the time, fuel is not an issue. But when the filed arrival fuel gets low, you start nitpicking the release. And all sorts of things pop up.
Yeesh. Before I upgraded for a couple months prior I was asking every captain I flew with if they have had any push back from the CPO in regards to captain add. Every captain I flew with said they never heard anything. But there were all sorts of rumors floating out there and so many stories that it is hard to know what's real without direct first hand experience. I remember when they were dragging all the LCA down to dfw a few years back to discuss a new fuel policy and shortly thereafter basically every release was tight on fuel so more and more captains fought back with adding, and still none of them said they heard anything from the company. So I hope this isn't a new change in the wind. But it wouldn't surprise me if it were. I know other regionals are fueled no where near how well we are. I'm not saying that we're better or not, or that because they get away with it, so we should be able to squeak by on fumes as well, I'm just saying that I know we are one of the more generously fueled regionals and I have always appreciated that. Hope it's not changing.
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