Sure its your "Right" to speak your national language, but does that "Right" make it safe and wise to do so. It most certainly does not!
If "everyone" speaks and is able to listen in the same language, then safety is improved, this is not debateable. The amount of incidents that are caused worldwide, by people speaking in their national to one aircraft, and English others is well documented, Paris CDG in particular.
Bluefalcon wrote
Someone porsted that in LEAL the ATC had intentions in giving priority to an iberia,,Why would there be priority to an Iberia if it aint anymore a public company( as AENA is), did you maybe stop to think the iberia had a slot and maybe the ATC wanted to help out.
Don't make me laugh too much, that was funny. I filed Air Safety Reports numerous time about priority vectors and approaches for Iberia/Spanish Airlines. The best happened once into AGP, vectored LH downwind for 32. Was on a rather wide vector, asked to slow minimum clean. I then saw a IB 757 overtake us on the inside at 300+ knots. I asked if he had an emergency, the reply was unclear. What made it really funny was we had 2 x gents from LATCC (London Air Traffic Control Centre) on an educational flight. They were absolutely astounded at what had happened and commented they would be on a disciplinary hearing for doing that!! Luckily for me i speak reasonable Spanish and understood what the controller said to the IB 757!!
Its well known that IB and other Spanish Airlines give AENA employees flightdeck priveledges, perhaps no surprise that favouritism is rampant!
I love Spain and most things Spanish, but the favouritism displayed by some ATCO's is very unprofessional!
EGGW