A319 captain reported concern regarding low amount of fuel on board per flight plan.

Attributes
ACN	1683737
Time
Date	201909
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A319
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Fuel Issue

Narrative:

Dispatching an aircraft with 5000 lbs remaining at destination is questionable at best. If we were to have a technical issue with the landing gear (for example); this would leave almost no time to troubleshoot before we were forced to land. The fact that; in reality; we landed with less than 4000 lbs while incurring no unforeseen delays would make such a flight not only ill advised; but downright dangerous. My suggestive corrective action is not to put minuscule fuel savings over the absolute safety of flight in everyday operations.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A319 Captain reported concern regarding low amount of fuel on board per flight plan.

Narrative: Dispatching an aircraft with 5000 lbs remaining at destination is questionable at best. If we were to have a technical issue with the landing gear (for example); this would leave almost no time to troubleshoot before we were forced to land. The fact that; in reality; we landed with less than 4000 lbs while incurring no unforeseen delays would make such a flight not only ill advised; but downright dangerous. My suggestive corrective action is not to put minuscule fuel savings over the absolute safety of flight in everyday operations.

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.