Dear mangatete et al,
My companies SOPs regarding fuel requirements are quite extensive and the use of landing minima once airborne is only one factor.
I don’t want to denigrate any of the crews involved but I think there is a lot to discuss here.
Especially with regard to:
Reliability, accuracy and therefore use of TAFs, TTFs and auto METARs,
Company alternate requirements,
Single runway destinations,
CATI destinations,
CATIII ops requiring an alternate and
Company requirement to source most current weather.