Narrative:

This flight is a known fuel critical flight. Because of the high density altitude in ZZZ it takes a lot of ATC coordination sometimes to get a departure runway for this flight. ATC did a great job in getting us runway xxr and expediting our taxi against the flow of landing traffic. Our company failed miserably though in getting us our final weights so that we capitalize on this coordination and get airborne in any kind of timely way and more importantly; land [at our destination airport] with a safe amount of fuel. We pushed 2 minutes early and accomplished a single engine taxi even at an extremely heavy weight; and then sat short of the runway for 42 minutes waiting for ramp and load planning to get us our numbers. We landed [at our destination airport] 39 minutes late after declaring minimum fuel specifically because of that ground delay in ZZZ. That is inexcusable. Also; we had the same problem uplinking cruise winds during preflight that I have had on several flights because dispatch keeps flight planning waypoints that are more than 900 miles in between. In this situation; the winds will not uplink inflight either. This is inexcusable also because now it's up to the pilots to continually be manually entering winds on a 5 1/2 hour flight. If these winds are even just a little inaccurate; we don't have a good indication. We landed with 5000 lbs of fuel with a flight plan that said we should have 7000 lbs of fuel.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 Captain reported landing with less than minimum fuel due to a takeoff delay waiting on weights and being unable to obtain updated wind information.

Narrative: This flight is a known fuel critical flight. Because of the high density altitude in ZZZ it takes a lot of ATC coordination sometimes to get a departure runway for this flight. ATC did a great job in getting us Runway XXR and expediting our taxi against the flow of landing traffic. Our company failed miserably though in getting us our final weights so that we capitalize on this coordination and get airborne in any kind of timely way and more importantly; land [at our destination airport] with a safe amount of fuel. We pushed 2 minutes early and accomplished a single engine taxi even at an extremely heavy weight; and then sat short of the runway for 42 minutes waiting for ramp and load planning to get us our numbers. We landed [at our destination airport] 39 minutes late after declaring minimum fuel specifically because of that ground delay in ZZZ. That is inexcusable. Also; we had the same problem uplinking cruise winds during preflight that I have had on several flights because Dispatch keeps flight planning waypoints that are more than 900 miles in between. In this situation; the winds will not uplink inflight either. This is inexcusable also because now it's up to the pilots to continually be manually entering winds on a 5 1/2 hour flight. If these winds are even just a little inaccurate; we don't have a good indication. We landed with 5000 lbs of fuel with a flight plan that said we should have 7000 lbs of fuel.

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.