God, Iberia really do have the worst record when it comes to this. They really don't like getting involved with other airlines, I mean has anyone not flying for Iberia ever recieved good service from Iberia handlers?!! If you're not Iberia they just don't want to know you. We were on a positioning flight once out of Barajas on a DC8 going back to the US and we waited so long for them to get the ASU,GPU, organise the fuel etc,that we had to go back to the hotel and take another crew rest!! We would have been out of hours, it was only a positioning flight, but still...
Ignition O, It's not quite that bad, noone with a brain in the States could possibly blame the unions for what happened with Lorenzo and Icahn. Good victory for the Northwest Mechanics as well, especially with regards to this hostile Bush administration.
Good luck to all in Argentina,