An embraer flight crew reported that due to weather they declared 'minimum fuel' and diverted to an ...

Narrative:

I became aware that there may have been an inadvertent lapse of safety which necessitates the filing of this report. We as a crew had to [divert] due to minimum fuel. Arriving into ZZZ we were told the RVR was more than 5;000 coming into runway 31R and when we arrived at minimums we had no runway contact and had to do a go-around. After executing the go-around we were told that runway RVR was more than 6;000 so we tried to perform the approach which once again was unsuccessful. After the second go-around we messaged the dispatcher and told him that we have to go to an alternate which they gave us ZZZ1. On the climb out to ZZZ1 we were worried about the fuel. We got a message from our dispatcher again stating that the ZZZ2 weather was better so given at the moment we had only 1;700 lbs of fuel we declared min fuel and got direct ZZZ2. Upon successfully reaching ZZZ2 and performing the approach we landed with about 1;200 lbs of fuel. Being a restricted captain and flying with a first officer (first officer) with less than 100 hours I believe it was safe enough to declare the min fuel for prioritizing the aircraft for landing after being in the air for almost 3 hours on a 1 hour flight.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Embraer flight crew reported that due to weather they declared 'Minimum Fuel' and diverted to an airport with better weather.

Narrative: I became aware that there may have been an inadvertent lapse of safety which necessitates the filing of this report. We as a crew had to [divert] due to minimum fuel. Arriving into ZZZ we were told the RVR was more than 5;000 coming into runway 31R and when we arrived at minimums we had no runway contact and had to do a go-around. After executing the go-around we were told that runway RVR was more than 6;000 so we tried to perform the approach which once again was unsuccessful. After the second go-around we messaged the dispatcher and told him that we have to go to an alternate which they gave us ZZZ1. On the climb out to ZZZ1 we were worried about the fuel. We got a message from our dispatcher again stating that the ZZZ2 weather was better so given at the moment we had only 1;700 lbs of fuel we declared min fuel and got direct ZZZ2. Upon successfully reaching ZZZ2 and performing the approach we landed with about 1;200 lbs of fuel. Being a restricted Captain and flying with a First Officer (FO) with less than 100 hours I believe it was safe enough to declare the min fuel for prioritizing the aircraft for landing after being in the air for almost 3 hours on a 1 hour flight.

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Attributes
ACN	1524277
Time
Date	201802
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Embraer Jet Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Fuel Issue Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

An embraer flight crew reported that due to weather they declared 'minimum fuel' and diverted to an airport with better weather.