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In the US, a dispatcher is more involved in the decision making then some other parts of the world. When I used to work there, in the end if I needed fual that a dispatcher couldn't/didn't want to justify, they marked it down as "Captain Request" and end of story. He's happy that he's not going to lose the 'min fuel' competition that some dispatch departments run from time to time, and I get the fuel I need.