@Sarah737
Two KLM skippers were criticising Fr's fuel policy whilst on that 26th of July one of the many aircraft not having extra fuel was... KLM...
I was in the hold over MAD when KLM checked in: "MAD app the KLM XXX level YYY position ZZZ, whe have 10 min extra fuel request expected approach time". When ATC was unable to give them an answer they diverted to, J think, BCN. If that night there would have been any holding at BCN they would have been in exactly the same situation as the Ryans in VLC
You don't know that. They had 10 minutes of extra fuel, that's all you know. Extra on top of what? Bare final reserve plus altn fuel? Or final reserve plus altn plus a margin to cover a holding at destination?
In fact, we know when they arrived at BCN (I am assuming the flight to the possible holdng at BCN) they had at least 10 minutes to spare, since they went for BCN with 10 minutes extra.
We do know at least one FR landed with less then 30 minutes left.