Landing long, landing short - before I was checked out for cross country flying in a glider I had to land ACROSS the runway for C****s sake, still it was 140m (459 ft.) WIDE, and Shock ! Horror ! gliders and powered aircraft used the same runway at the same time, just an unmown strip of grass separating the two.
OK, not paying pax. at International Airports, so not relevant, but ...
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.......and if we can justify our actions to the boss and the CAA.......
That is the whole point, if at the Subsequent Court of Inquiry the - non pilot - judge will say " I don't understand, it says in The Ops Manual thou shouldn't, or should, do X Y Z, so why did / didn't you ? "
IF you feel that you can ultimately justify your non-standard, "pilot manouvering", actions, then go ahead, that's nothing to do with having the B**ls to do something without the approval of the Cabin Purser.