Surferboy as a northern european controller you cannot be expected to know first hand what is happening in Spain. Some more examples:
Transavia asks for a ready message. One hour later he calls Palma delivery because when calling the company he finds out that the ready message was never sent. Condor then discovers the same.
Another aircraft asks for a ready message and is given some garbled response that a ready message is only possible thirty minutes before EOBT, this with a slot delay of ninety minutes.
Several aircraft are told ten minutes before CTOT that they are too late and must call their company for another slot.
Now all of these things can happen.....but within a two hour period?