Originally Posted by Neville Nobody
You declare minimum fuel and ATC tell you how long you will hold for. If you cannot make their time it is then up to you to find a new airport.
No. Read ENR 1.1-98. If ATC continues to dick you around after declaring minimum fuel, then declare a fuel mayday. You do not "have to find another airport".
Keep this in context, NN. I was replying to Framer's stumbling blocks to an unplanned diversion to MEL.