I never blamed HKG ATC for anything. IMO, HKG ATC does not handle bad weather very well. That's just the way it is. The extra half hour's fuel I referenced is for what often amounts to unnecessary holding and vectoring. It is not meant to compensate for an inability to land in said weather, but to delay an unnecessary divert decision. Those who don't carry extra gas fly into their divert fuel once the contingency fuel is gone, some of which will have already been used enroute. That's when the seat cushion sucking starts because you are committed to one airport at that point.
PS - We sometimes show up with little gas on top of our divert fuel because the forecasting is not all that accurate in the summer months.
Last edited by cxorcist; 18th Sep 2012 at 22:48.