Originally Posted by
FullWings
I’ve been exposed to fuel tables for a long time and, as Wiggy says, they were informational. If you’d had a month of Caribbean hurricanes or CAT3 all day in Europe as opposed to CAVOK, then it was pretty meaningless. From where I see it, as long as you follow your OM A fuel policy on the ground and in the air, you should be safe. The risk is only in an unnecessary diversion/return if the signs were present that there were likely to be significant delays/weather at destination and you ignored this - which is poor airmanship but not dangerous per se, IMO.
Fuel tables are perfectly fine, financial reward for carrying less fuel creates a conflict of interests IMO.