From the right seat, I often see captains add gas when they don’t need it (I certainly don’t mind) and we end up landing with 25k in Memphis on a day we could easily get away with 16. That said, in the last two weeks I’ve two flights (transcons) where we would’ve needed to divert if the captains had taken the GOC fuel load.

In short it’s tough to believe that this week GOC can so poorly plan our burns but two weeks from now it’ll be better... I’d love to be an advocate for the policy change but I’m pretty darn skeptical