Iberia Rant 3

A big downside to going home was it was Iberia who had to take us. Surely they can get us back home on time relatively trouble free? Vamos a ver!

It didn’t start too good. The flight from Venice to Madrid was busy so we couldn’t sit together. Both being forced to sit in the centre seats. Maybe Iberia had read our complaints and this was their idea of fun. Still, the flight was only 20 minutes late and we had plenty of time to catch the connecting flight to Málaga.

Barajas terminal 4 was deathly quiet. I had a walk up to the infamous Iberia Customer Information Centre to see what was going on. All quiet there too. Our flight was scheduled to go at 11:45pm so it was one of the last flights out but the lack of queues at the info centre must be a sign that everything was going well.

The flight was delayed by 20 minutes but we were at the baggage reclaim at Málaga for 1am. There was another flight waiting for bags but I hadn’t seen the airport this quiet for a long time. “Back home for 2am” Monica declared sleepily. Unfortunately, at that time we were still stood at the baggage reclaim belt.

I have no idea what took so long. It seemed ages before the doors to the belt finally opened. Then a few bags with red “priority bags” tags came out. The few lucky business class passengers collected their bags and shuffled off into the night. Surprisingly, they didn’t seem to let the 40-minute plus wait bother them. They must be seasoned Iberia customers.

The rest of the bags came out two by two. The doors of the belt shut and opened at least three times before our bags finally came out. Maybe our bags had a “Iberia serial moaners make sure last bag out” tag on them. I can’t wait to write my complaint letter to this miserable excuse of an airline.