I recall requesting taxi in MAD, having been pushed to beside a link taxiway. Despite repeated calls on ground, no reply was forthcoming as the controller elected to allow an Iberia a few stands along to start his push. Once he had finished his push, he was facing us with nowhere to go but out the link we (thought) we were blocking. By now we had been ready to taxi for at least 5mins and had made repeated calls to Ground, all of which were ignored. So it was with shock we heard the IB cleared to taxi ahead of us. Advising ATC that there was no room for him (which there wasn't) also went ignored. No problem for our hero in red and yellow though, him simply ignored the taxi line, squeezed out past us with his wingtip very uncomfortably close to our flight deck, taking out some taxiway edge lights with his main gear as his went. We were then finally given taxi.
No favouritism? Professional standards? Yeah right
