> That is to say, in this case, when they missed their first or second approach, they CANNOT say, "We'll use our reserve fuel and make another go at it" because that would be intentionally planning to burn your reserve.

Is that what happened? That's not in the article, what's the source?

And other comments here are saying the third attempt was in Edinburgh, so they were already trying to land anywhere possible by the third attempt.

At what point are you saying they chose to plan on using reserves when they still had any option for landing without reserves?