Taking less than flight planned fuel
How many of you out there would take less than flight planned fuel (ie fuel as calculated by the computer that churns out your flight plan/SWORD)? would anyone be inclined to round figures down instead of up? Now take into account the fact that half of Europe is on an ATC strike. I flew a 3.5 hr sector across Europe during the height of the strike and on the return sector the captain announced that he was going to take below SWORD fuel. It was only by a few hundred kilos but I stated that I was not happy with this. The last time I flew with this captain the weather was terrible and I anticipated delays followed by a difficult appraoch with possible windshear. On this occasion he had overridden my request for extra fuel and taken SWORD fuel even though I had protested quite strongly about it. We landed with just above minimum reserve fuel (ie 3 mins to a mayday call). So yesterday I thought I would express my discomfort more strongly, and I did protest. He said 'don't worry - we won't crash' and totally ignored my protests about taking below SWORD fuel. I would like to have a plan as to how to deal with this kind of behaviour next time I have to fly with this captain, so if anyone has any helpful comments, both about the CRM involved, and about the fuel quantity taken, please contribute them.