Chaps, the point I am trying to make is that extra fuel is a 'comfort thing'. When that 'comfort thing' was bought at $15/barrel....fine. When that same 'comfort thing' comes in at $150/barrel, it becomes a luxury that is very expensive, and it behoves us to only make our employer pay that if it is absolutely necessary. What is happening is pilots are not reacting to the increase in cost of that 'comfort thing' by buying less- habits are not changing, and they have to. It does not mean planes are going to run out of fuel. We have had to go back over 30 years I believe to find an example in the western world, and that involved significant technical problems and a complete breakdown of CRM. Without the 'comfort thing', one must make the decision that will come later that little bit earlier. Because of the price of fuel, we must be a little bit sharper. To blindly say one is still going to carry around the same figures with the way costs have gone up is plain ignorant.
If you are flying around in Cbs, then who is going to complain if you have a good reason?