Thanks for the replies one and all...
Can you from your respective airlines indicate which companies that you know of load alternate fuel as a given?
In Australia a few years ago two 737 (one QF and one VAH) en route to Adelaide had to divert due fog. I have attached a precis from Ben Sandilands (God look after him) a respected journalist very able to cut through airline BS. The Virgin aircraft landed with 535kg in tanks.
The lightly loaded Virgin jet (91 passengers and crew) and the nearly full Qantas 737 (152 on board) were both headed for Adelaide on the morning of 18 June without any alternative airport flight planning, because Australia allows passenger airliners to take off without what is considered a fundamental requirement for safe operations in most of the world.
One can amuse themselves in the bovine excrement of a report from the ATSB (safety overseer). Airlines in Australia are still not mandated to carry an alternate. Thinking out loud am wondering whether a new app helps lock in potential KPI for the management pilots, which progressively allows control over 'pilot performance', a long held goal of HR
Thanks all