How many times I landed with less the final reserve + alternate in LGW, not thanks to the flight plan though.
I have however landed with final reserve + alternate after holding for 25 min in LGW. And often I have to burn some of the "extra" fuel that I load.
Your point being?
So you are saying that on a beautiful normal day you ended up holding for 25 minutes and still landed with CMR. That means you usually load up quite a lot of extra fuel. However, the company just wanted you to divert in stead of uploading all that fuel ALL THE TIME. So what you did was going against SOP. Yeah you delivered your pax at destination, but you burnt quite a lot of fuel needlessly on all those other occasions when you landed without significant delay! The company doesn't want that. They clearly state so in the OM. They pay your salary. Why do you not obey?