what happens if your destination closes?
Hi
If I understand the "rules" rightly from discussion here, every plane takes on board fuel to go to the alternate. That sounds very good, but if your destination is a big airport that suddenly shuts down for some reason while you are already circling over it, and the alternate is a smaller airport that cannot handle such traffic, exactly where are the guys short on fuel supposed to park their bus?
Isn't a bit of spare fuel something a captain should be allowed to take on board if he feels like it?