Narrative:

Upon arrival; I noticed that there [were] no agents available. After waiting a while I contacted dispatch and we confirmed the min fuel for the flight was 2;600lbs (2;582 lbs on the release). The ramp said that we could have a takeoff weight of 3;050 lbs based on our assumed fuel burn and landing weight at our destination. Since there was no [gate] agent I called dispatch and told them to contact the fueler and tell them to fuel to 3;300 lbs; this includes 250 lbs for taxi since there were delays and it was the only runway we could use due to the winds at. We departed after a longer than usual taxi waiting for traffic. The flight went normally until I noticed that our fuel gauges seemed to be reading the same amount as when we confirmed our fuel load prior to engine start. We looked for a check list but there was none so we contacted dispatch and confirmed our fuel load and requested to talk with maintenance while they confirmed our fuel order with international fuel. I discussed the issue with maintenance and it seemed like the gauges were actually fine. That meant only one thing could have happened; we had been overfueled by about 1;000 lbs. Dispatch confirmed that the fuel vendor said they fueled the aircraft to 4;300 lbs; not 3;300 lbs. We asked dispatch if they wanted us to return or burn off fuel and land at our destination. They said that [dispatch] wanted us to continue. We descended to 4;000 feet to hold and burn fuel faster over the VOR. We talked to the chief pilot and he agreed that we should land at our destination. We burned fuel until we were at our planned landing weight and landed without incident. A maintenance inspection was performed the next morning and no defects were found due to the overweight operation.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air Carrier Captain reported being over fueled for a flight.

Narrative: Upon arrival; I noticed that there [were] no agents available. After waiting a while I contacted dispatch and we confirmed the min fuel for the flight was 2;600lbs (2;582 lbs on the release). The ramp said that we could have a takeoff weight of 3;050 lbs based on our assumed fuel burn and landing weight at our destination. Since there was no [gate] agent I called Dispatch and told them to contact the fueler and tell them to fuel to 3;300 lbs; this includes 250 lbs for taxi since there were delays and it was the only runway we could use due to the winds at. We departed after a longer than usual taxi waiting for traffic. The flight went normally until I noticed that our fuel gauges seemed to be reading the same amount as when we confirmed our fuel load prior to engine start. We looked for a check list but there was none so we contacted dispatch and confirmed our fuel load and requested to talk with maintenance while they confirmed our fuel order with International Fuel. I discussed the issue with maintenance and it seemed like the gauges were actually fine. That meant only one thing could have happened; we had been overfueled by about 1;000 lbs. Dispatch confirmed that the fuel vendor said they fueled the aircraft to 4;300 lbs; not 3;300 lbs. We asked Dispatch if they wanted us to return or burn off fuel and land at our destination. They said that [dispatch] wanted us to continue. We descended to 4;000 feet to hold and burn fuel faster over the VOR. We talked to the Chief Pilot and he agreed that we should land at our destination. We burned fuel until we were at our planned landing weight and landed without incident. A maintenance inspection was performed the next morning and no defects were found due to the overweight operation.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.