Our procedure was if you were not down by the first taxiway off the runway which was 700 ft from the threshold, go around. We never had to because we made sure that happened. Yes that 737 video shows how close they came to going off the cliff. Wet runways reduced landing weight depending on the wind. Some days we couldn't land wet so had to reduce our load before takeoff.
Fuel was expensive there so ferrying fuel in was common if expected conditions were dry runways. Once they removed 25 passengers from boarding because of possible rain showers and a United jumpseater was told he couldn't board. I called the dispatcher and said I have flown there for years and that is the normal forecast and it always ends up dry so they loaded everybody up and had an uneventful flight. He was a new guy so was being ultra conservative.
The agent made a nasty phone call to our chief pilot saying I was being pushy but all I did is let all my passengers and jumpseating pilot get to TGU. Of coarse it was dry and everybody but that agent was happy.
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