How much fuel do you carry
I know its a silly question, but how much is enuff. My company has a fuel policy based on min fuel and nothing more as mandated by our totally outdated governing body.
So our fuel load does not change according to different weather conditions. TS for example. If the destination and alternate indicate tempo TS, we are not required to carry extra fuel as long as the viz is not less than min for landing and viz at alternate is not less than min for landing plus a small margin of 200m. Snow at destination and alternate require nothing extra. Traffic volume requires nothing extra.
Obviously, prudent crews take extra fuel but its not required and in fact frowned upon. We have the fuel chart wall of shame trying to force less fuel carriage to cut costs.
So I guess I am trying to find some sort of guidance is issued by FAA or ICAO or some authority or airline that can be used as guidance for fuel carriage. In Australia, fuel carriage has complex requirments based on alternate minimums, TS, traffic holding etc that are just not referred to in Asia.