Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
Doesn’t the new policy go into effect 2Jul? Maybe asking after that will yield some new data. I’ll forgo an addition to the survey until after that.
For me, as of today? I haven’t felt the need to ask for additional fuel in at least 5 years. What’s on the release has been more than comfy, but maybe domestic flyers are seeing something else even before the new policy starts.
Five years? You must have phenomenal luck. In the last five years I've been given a forecast of good weather (no alternate required) into Indy, Memphis, Newark, Seattle, LA, Syracuse, Fort Lauderdale, and that's just off the top of my head, all below or at minimums when we got there. Unforecast thunderstorms, unforecast crosswinds that went past limitations, in addition to low vis.
I've had alternates not added when one was required, no additional fuel for thunderstorm avoidance or ATC vectoring on the east coast, added fuel because the freight was going to be heavy, just to name a few reasons. Do these issues not come up internationally? Domestically, we certainly don't trust meteorology weather forecasts, because they screw then up all the time. That's the main reason we add gas, we do not trust...nor should we.