Originally Posted by cencal83406

Had a CA point out a fuel situation to me I’d never thought of, but now I do the math every time…

the company is only required to protect something like 10% for the c fuel (bad memory and no book in front of me so I’m open to the flogging)… well we were leaving a busy socal airport once and had to sit in the conga line to depart like 45 min… turns out if you just look at the landing fuel… you can be f’d… so my new FO technique is to take the min fuel for takeoff and subtract the trip fuel… this usually leads to a much smaller number than the flight plan landing fuel… so with that in mind, if that number is uncomfortably lower than 6.0 (weather/notams factored in) ask for more fuel or more protected C fuel.

I’m probably wrong. Never upgraded anywhere so never had to make the tough calls…