Seriously Ken, I know Im taking your bait hook line and sinker here. But flying your C172 on weekends has nothing to do with the problem faced by the crew here. Of course better planning could have helped, but how many different scenario's pop up in Aviation that you just have to "wear it" and take an unpopular decision so that the flight goes ahead safely.
That flight may be predicated on a nominal 30mins holding at DPS, so they sell X amount of seats. There may have been a last minute amended TAF issued which had a TEMPO for arrival, so straight away you dont have the weight for another 30mins fuel. Rather than offload pax immediately, they may have been waiting to see if there were a few no-shows so that people who HAVE turned up do not get shafted. But everyone probably turned up. So what do you do then Ken? Here is something which has been out of the control of the crew and they have to deal with it. The problem wont just magically go away with someone whinging about it.
