Getting to Frisco
Lu
Insurance companies take risks and they usually indulge themselves initially in declinature - to escape their predicaments. I don't take risks so I indulge myself with inclinature (i.e. I am always inclined to bog off away from a thunderstorm because I have the greatest respect for Mother Nature's right to rip me limb from limb if I invade her cosmic orgasm). Nothing is ever quite as cut and dried as you've portrayed it. If I had enough gas I'd be inclined to slope off into a holding pattern and entertain the pax with war stories (nothing like a captive audience that's already in thrall duer to the lightning in the middle distance). That's my entitlement. If I had sufficient gas and things were starting to shut down all around due weather I'd not waste that gas holding - I'd go somewhere else. I'd expect some sensible suggestions from ATC and my OPS on that score. If I didn't have enough gas I'd blame the F/O and Flt Eng for allowing me to be so stupid in the prevailing weather/season. Only then would I be in a corner and forced to make the harder decisions. Trapped rats never think clearly and that's why it's always best to avoid that scenario.
Losing a spot at a gate? Hardly consequential methinks. There are always alternatives. Conflicting traffic? So I'll do TWO long-way round turns and keep talking until they slot me in. Weighing the alternatives, fast talking, declaring your fuel state as a factor and always coming up with the right answer (or reply) is why captaincy gets you the big bucks.
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