<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mahjongguy:
Oh my. Aren't you in charge of loading enough fuel? 
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Nah, that belongs to dispatch, operations, and the fueler. Btw, the "padded time" is referred to as the "block time" in the industry and it measures the time from when the aircraft is "out" of the gate and back "in" the gate.