I would like to bring some light here...
EY101 on the 9th of august was dispatched under the following fuel policy:
FUEL TIME
TRIP 119.9 1351
CONT 3.6 0025
ALT 1.9 0013
FINRES 3.6 0030
FOD ADD 0.5 0003
MINIMUM TO FUEL 129.5 1503
TAXI 0.6 0015
The MDF in this case would have been 6t as per OMA (alt+finres+fod) (I am not considering the contingency) and arriving overhead JFK with 1.9 means that the crew burned additional 4.1T along the route (plus 3.6 of the cont) ! now this is unlikely if the flight was performed in normal ops with no fuel leakage! so what might have happened is
- the crew lifted up less fuel
- they where re-routed by atc
if the FOB is less or equal to the FINRES the crew has to declare emergency my question now is did they performed a thorough fuel analysis during the flight? and why didn't they divert upon scratching the MDF???? who would be so mad to continue to destination???? 1.9T of fuel is less the 15 mins on 346
