I'm just back from a weekend 'hedonistic beano' to the Costas and was booked with EI DUB-AGP-DUB, ended up doing DUB-BCN-AGP-BCN-LHR-BHD, all the One World and bmi ground staff esp. the people from Iberia, did a fantastic job at every change over sorting tkt changes and missing bags etc.
The 'self loaders' that I got speaking to at various times in the whole did not bear a grudge with our EI colleagues for a 1 day stoppage, but they could not comprehend why after the 24hrs that it was the management refusing to let the aircraft fly.