And the subject of going fat with fuel.
Yes you do it but never to that extent. Personally I would have gone fat with enough to get to NQY if I had the excess traffic load to do it. But no way would I have had hours of it onboard. If you do that OPS will tell you to sit in the hold until you have to divert. So you end up with over flowing toilets if you have them fitted and a very happy FO with hours in his log book and an extremely sore backside going round in circles.
Personally I would have done one approach to show willing then disappeared off to preferably somewhere in Eire but if none of them look do able off to NQY. And just except I was going to get sworn at on the telephone, it wouldn't be the first time or last.