Two excellent posts.
Two of the flag carriers I flew for are covered by the above.
My last employer was the most expensive carrier in Europe...no one ever questioned tankage and occasionally we off loaded freight to take sufficient fuel.
My first carrier was run by bullies - flame out after landing due to lack of fuel, taking minimum fuel when you knew that you would probably have at least 1 hour holding...and many other unpleasantries....little trust in management nor training departments.
And of course no trust in the regulator.
The attitude of paring margins gave us 8 airframe losses in 6 years and if it hadn't been a state airline it would have gone bust.
Fortunately FR are obviously not in the latter catagory but if there is undo pressure on crews due to the management philosophy then something needs to change before the apparent "risk management strategy" bites them on the nose.
Perhaps this thread should be printed off and sent to the appropriate transport ministry then when the sh@t hits the fan they won't be able to say we didn't know.
