H B - The AIC doesn't say "airlines", it says "flights". This presumably means particular flights maybe military, which are perhaps concerned with security, national emergency or whatever and which are granted exemption on a one-off basis. Don't really know.
You really are wrong in your interpretation of Absolute Minima but I don't blame you. The AIC if read in isolation would lead to any reasonable person drawing the conclusion which you have. It really needs to be read in association with the Supplementary Instruction in the MATS Part 1 which details the ATC procedure referred to in the Pink AIC.
Just to quote a bit of it "Operators who are approved to make Cat II or III approaches are required to undergo specific approval for their operations. It has been decided that the passing of minima, as detailed in this SI, will not apply to Cat II or III approaches. However the procedure will be applied when the performance of an ILS is downgraded and it is capable of providing only Cat I guidance or localiser only approaches."
Just re-read the SI and it says that "Military flights, including those operating as General Air Traffic are excluded from this procedure".
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