Fuel Savings

"I don't give a damn!"
"I'll burn as much as I want!"
"It's all going into management's pocket anyway! They'll just pad their bonus' with it!"

This what I hear. This is what I see. It may be true. It may not be. We don't know and that's the truth of it. As I have said before: THIS IS OUR COMPANY. Not management's. So look after OUR company and if management DOES steal, we will try and expose it and hopefully throw them out if need be.
Now I'm not advocating the "Fuel to minimum level" advocated by some of our upwardly mobile mini-managers with their own self serving political agendas. It's not safe. It reduces options. It's too stressful. It creates inconvenience and hidden costs for which these so called managers are not held responsible. They should be. And speaking of costs, nobody to my knowledge has produced reliable data on future lost revenue incurred by passenger misconnects and other inconveniences associated with diversions. Those market research tools are carefully groomed to produce the results whatever particular management feifdom  in charge at the time, wants.
Put on what you need to have contingencies and feel comfortable. Then try and save as much as you can. I add gas on about 90% of the flights I fly. I save on about 80% of those flights. i.e. come in under burn. I'm happy. My F/O's happy. The bean counters are happy. And the passengers get to where they are going.
I'm not out to impress anybody, but I will not be part of destructive belligerence on our part or management turf warfare on theirs. Neither is good for our company's future health.
And that is what secures your future.