Let me get this right:
1) cockpit crew receives weather report of Coventry with runway state during flight.
2) cockpit crew confirms in the landing performance data that LDA is less then LDR.
3) cockpit crew diverts to first preferred alternate, makes a landing and everybody goes home for tea.
Did I miss anything here
. Seems quite ok to me.
(btw, preferred commercial alternate might not be the closest one but can be the most suitable from an operaters point of few because they know they can for example get coaches there quickly. Itīs no good being 30 miles from home and having to wait 3 hours for the bleeding bus....
)