I've never heard of this.

I've been on a plane sat at LCY over a fuel payment dispute, eventually resolved by the pilot (seen making furious gestures out the window - the standing start required at LCY was even more vicious than usual after that...)

I've also been on a KLM AMS-VIE flight that was forced to divert to MUC as it did not have enough fuel to stack at VIE for 45 minutes following an earlier airport closure. That wasn't encouraging.