How much does a diversion of a fully loaden B747 cost your airline if, :
- 400 pax have to be bussed to origin, if poss at all
- replacement crew has to be shipped to alternate
-operating crew has to be hoteled somewhere unexpected
-outgoing flight will be delayed at least another 12 hrs. since everybody has already run or will be running out of duty time anyhow
-additional landing + handling fees
-more problems on that alt.field, bcoze nobody had seen your ship ever before.
-"you do NOT have ca$h, sorry but we do not take your credit card!"
.....and so on and on!
If you would take ,let`s say in a 35year airline career, on all of your flights 1oookgs of extra fuel-just for mum and the kids-it will be still LESS than only ONE diversion you will make in your whole time!
Airlines went NEVER bankrupt by pilots fuel decisions, only by beancounters!!!
Happy ldgs
Angel