Originally Posted by
DROPS
If everyone just carried the bare minimum and declared minimum fuel upon arrival it ain't gonna work. These rules sound like they were determined to protect crews from their company fuel policy.
But they don't, and it would be both bad practice and poor ecconomics to do so- the number of divertions would make any supposed saving moot. Minimum fual means something hasn't gone to plan (in my case, a flight-planning error as it was a brand new aircraft and the performance degredation figure was wrong) but it isn't yet an emergency. ATC is there for saftey- and PREVENTING an emergency sounds like a sound saftey goal to me!