We are getting a little bit nit-picking now discussing gauge error when we are only talking 1100kg or so, and I think it is safe to assume that no-one from the Spanish CAA works at that hour of the night. . . . therefore the arrival fuel was as noted by the crew. Aircraft would be refuelled well before any Spanish Civil Servant left bed, so lets leave it at that.
Safe to assume they landed "close"
to final reserve if they took the trouble to declare an emergency.
Well, happy to say that the crew that took me to Sevilla last week when I wanted to go to Malaga still managed to park it with a smidgin less than 1400kg after holding 40 min waiting for the CB to pass AGP.
I certainly had no complaints about their fuel choice or operational decisions
For sure the hysteria in the Spanish press probably resulted in a few clenched buttocks amongst the mainly Spanish pax acompanying me. Much scarier by far the 2& a half hour bus ride between flooded fields & rivers bursting their banks
