At least one of Australia's major airlines has a fuel policy that has their aircraft arriving with such a small amount of fuel that if they were to go-around, it would put them into an emergency situation .
Probably should heed the wind-up alert going off…...but here goes anyway.
You're probably referring to the Roo branded airline. If so, the fuel policy doesn't always/often plan as much fuel as other airlines, but to suggest that carriage of "Flightplan Fuel" means any go-round would lead to an emergency fuel situation is just plain wrong.
This airline has also tried in the past to bully their Captains into only taking the amount of fuel that the company has planned for them and to not carry any additional discretionary fuel.
Replace the word bully with 'encourage' or even 'nag'
might be closer to the mark, but again I've
never been questioned on the amount of fuel I've carried….not once and there have been many occasions where we've felt the need for significantly more than the 'min required' on the plan.
Any airline management that is not reminding pilots of the cost of fuel doesn't have fuel cost as a significant expense in their operation.