I thought that every Airline basically banned circling these days
That is a too wide a generalisation. Funny how circling approaches for many decades were considered normal and perfectly safe if flown by competent pilots. . Yet nowadays that GPS approaches are all the rage, circling approaches suddenly become (shudder) dangerous.
Depending of course on the destination terrain characteristics, circling approaches are not in themselves categorised as dangerous (providing any published No Circling area is respected). It is the questionable competency of the pilots flying them that gives people the yips; particularly those that are totally dependent on the automatic pilot as a crutch to lean on.