I was flying that night into BCN and was in the hold at CLE with the Lingus.
Usual ops in BCN is 25R but you need 400m rvr to land and as it was down to 325m I explained to ATC that we needed 25L so we could do Cat 3 approach. They said no.. I informed them that if we couldn't land on 25L we would have to divert. As you would expect they didn't give a s**t.
All Navaids were serviceable, after about 5 -10 minutes in the hold we bugged out to LEGE, gave up asking for 25L it was like banging my head against a brick wall.
LEGE ATC were equally cack, put in the hold while diverting to them as well...used over a 1000kgs just going from CLE to LEGE!
Fortunately we diverted with fuel well above CNR as I could see it was about to kick off as the hold was getting busier with other aircraft asking the same questions to ATC, I think we were the first to give up and divert..quite glad we did really after reading the report.
Also to add to the fun, fog on the earlier TAFs was not expected..fortunately we got an updated one just before departing and gassed it up.
Safe flying
B