Wino- yep, even if you did twenty go-arounds a month, that is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the money/stock that is siphoned out of some airlines' operations by our 'leaders by example'
, after each pilot took paycuts which exceed 35%. The CEO told the media that it was not their decision, but "was the Board's decision" to award them all about US $350,000,000.
There is little motivation here to reduce fuel costs except for having plenty at our destination and whatever suitable alternates are nearby with no weather in between.
One problem is when you take off on a two-hour flight after thunderstorms/very long ground delays at both runways 9 and 15R, running both the APU and an engine, in order to keep the plane from getting too hot (
in IAH ) you are 5-10 minutes from minimum fuel at the destination as soon as you take off.
And this was after I told Dispatch during the preflight that we would increase contingency by 1,000 lbs.
