Funny I just came across these posts. I was flying the first Transavia 737 today to SOU.
We decided to try an approach on rwy 02 because of a slightly better landing performance on this runway (headwind). Some scattered clouds forced us to go-around, we then flew the ILS 20 apporach and landed.
The 2nd Transavia also made a go-around on the VOR 02 but were to heavy to land with the tailwind on runway 20 so they diverted to Gatwick.
The 3rd was already scheduled to got to BOH to take all the pax we had to leave behind beacuse of the performance limitations.
Indeed it was military personnel going on a trainig mission.
For info: our mimimum landing distance on the -800 is 1550 meters and 1370 for the -700.