Originally Posted by Gulfasaurus

I've never had any pushback when asking for anything at Delta. One time ATL was going in and out of low visibility all morning while we were at the outstation. I called to have some extra fuel and the dispatcher said he was seeing flights getting in without issues and in his mind it wasn't necessary. All it took was saying that i saw his point but in my experience would prefer the extra fuel, and the argument ended there. When we called for taxi it had gone down to CAT III and we were hit with a 45 min flow time. Got an ACARS from dispatch saying "good thing you added that fuel". Same thing with changing alternates or adding an alternate when the forecast is right at the limit of needing one. At most I've gotten their reasoning for planning it that way, but never any pushback when I insisted on my request.