Originally Posted by
Peter47
In other words, for UHL flights how low a level of reserve fuel can you get away with before offloading SLF?
TBH your diversion fuel and 30 minute reserve are fixed..you are generally not at liberty to lower them. Back in the day (around the time of the HKG you are looking at ) there used to be various opinions as to whether or not you could reduce contingency fuel to get people on - in the days when contingency was often a fixed 5% of trip fuel you had a lot of flex..your contingency could be 6 or 7 tonnes....these days with statistical contingency fuels your margins are much tighter and there isn’t the wriggle room to reduce anything.