dont get me started on IB….almost every time i’ve flown on them, i’ve wanted to try skydiving instead….
Last year, i did GVA-MAD-EZE-MAD-GVA…
GVA-MAD i must admit was alright…maybe even good….but from then on….
MAD-EZE was an A340 with seats that would make Franco’s chief torturer proud….. and it’s the last thin anyone wants on a 14 hour flight……
to top things off, on arriving at EZE, the plane bounced 2 times before finally settling…i’d normally let it go (you can blame it on the pilot not being familiar with the airport), except for the fact that EZE-MAD, the 340 bounced not twice, but thrice (3 times)! again the seats were a torture….
AND
MAD-GVA had a funny story behind it…
flight was supposed to leave from (could it be?) B31 (not too sure of the gate numbers at MAD), and 5 minutes into when the flight should have departed, the gate was changed to B21…..so off we went…..up, right, down……B21, here we are!…….15 minutes later, no sign of our airplane, and the gate is changed to……B31!!!so we go up, left down….. believe it or not, this happened 4 times over the space of an hour, before we were sent to an altogether different gate, and bussed out to a replacement airplane….
the only other times before that i have flown with IB (MIA-MAD-GVA), the DC10 doing MIA-MAD had even worse seats than the A340 ones, AND the flight arrived late at MAD, which meant we lost our connection and were put on a SR flight……oh, and yes, our bags ended up in FRA by some unusual handling……all in all, rather frustrating…
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