B767-300 and 300 ER
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 140; Flight Crew Total 20000; Flight Crew Type 5500
Communication Breakdown; Confusion
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Weight And Balance
General None Reported / Taken
Procedure; Human Factors
Shortly after leveling at cruise we received an ACARS message from load planning requesting a passenger count. Subsequent to providing it; we received a new final weight manifest with a Zero Fuel Weight of 2;151 LBS greater than the final weights we received before departure.Besides the obvious takeoff safety concerns; this would normally also have triggered contact with dispatch to recalculate enroute fuel consumption. Since we had additional fuel on board; this was not a significant issue. We continued to destination without incident. This is just one more incident demonstrating management's failure to understand safety issues being generated by a very complicated merger.
After reaching cruise altitude; a B767-300 flight crew received revised takeoff weights. Reporter expressed his belief that management's incompetence is/was responsible.