Originally Posted by contrails

Here's another failure of outsourcing.

A vendor has a plane that's going to fly a leg for Mainline Airways, get to the outstation, and then fly a few legs as Vendor Independent Airlines.

The first leg gets not only fuel to get to the destination, but 45 minutes worth of taxi fuel when it's known to be a 10 minute taxi at the moment, plus fuel for an alternate when it's not needed, plus 30 minutes of holding fuel, plus 20 minutes of contingency fuel.

It lands as Mainline Express at the outstation with a few thousand pounds above what it needs. Now it's that much closer to being at release fuel for its flight as Vendor Independent Airlines, where it's competing with the parent company that just bought half of the fuel that's in the tank.