Originally Posted by
Aluminium shuffler
All irrelevant, though, if we're talking about someone who is not a licensed dispatcher and is in fact a turn around coordinator.
I was answering your incorrect notion that "aviation everywhere has enshrined" that the PIC in air carrier ops can do whatever he wants with fuel, answering to nobody else, as long as minimums are met.
Also, it's pointless to talk about relevance when his status as a licensed Dispatcher vs a turn around coordinator is just as irrelevant to the topic; being assaulted by a pilot, if true. I makes no difference. The entire "who has authority" angle is irrelevant and this incident seems more a chance for some to crow about how much authority they have (or think they have) rather than discuss the possibility that someone, who never should, lost their temper to the point of physically assaulting someone on the job.