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The FAA requires all flights to plan to arrive with 45 minutes of fuel. At US Airways
we use 60 minutes of arrival fuel as minimum and currently average 100 minutes in actual
operations.
Through the normal tracking of our landing weight and fuel burn, we recently discovered that a
few of our pilots (eight to be exact) were adding fuel to their dispatched fuel loads much more
frequently than their peers. While this is appropriate as our pilots always have the ability to order
more fuel as conditions warrant, the data for this small number of pilots was well in excess of the
norm.
