Originally Posted by
Citation2
You are the Commander of the aircraft at planning stage maybe... until you have to justify your extra fuel...
Or maybe not even at planning stage when the dispatcher has decided on your fuel uplift.
From the fuel justification process kicks off the bias..
I'm totally with Havingwings4ever on this one. In most companies a reason for extra fuel has to be provided if you exceed a certain amount of extra fuel, but unless the extra fuel carried is excessive on every flight this data is mostly used for statistics etc. and not to chase up on individual captains. I have worked for four companies so far all of them had a policy like this in place but I never received any call or other consequence because of extra fuel. So either your fear regarding punishment for taking extra fuel is irrational or you should indeed send a report about this policy.