Originally Posted by JD-EE
That raises another can of worms.
- can I kill that one straight away please? Quite 'normal' to 'leave the ramp' over Max take-off mass - there is a 'max ramp mass' published for aircraft. They took off BELOW max take-off mass, therefore there is anything wrong there.
It appears that they fuelled to max. With ETOPS there are always options at all points along the route for diversion etc if necessary. 940kg is as much as they could get on and was apparently ABOVE the 'extra' required for the ETOPS planning. Cannot see a problem there. A well-planned 'detour' around weather does not burn that much extra.