What you have to remember it's us naughty pilots, we have all been using too much fuel !!
Company policy is to commit to DXB no matter what time of day or night/ traffic conditions, and then when you divert they'll be onto to you for not taking enough.
And lets not go there when dispatch load up the gas, in response to the knee jerk reaction from upstairs when the birds are scattered to the four winds when Dxb goes pear shaped.