Originally Posted by
frb98mf
IB also run a widebody once a day - the 18.30 departure IB3167 is an A340. Given the choice between that and BA's 777, I'd rather that. And BA substitute theirs a lot these days for the dreadful Titan 757.
Likely just bad luck on my part, but my one flight on that IB A340 was hugely delayed, due to issues with the cargo loading (which is, I gather, one of the two main reasons they run that plane on that route, the other I think being connectivity capacity for ex MAD LatAm routings).
Basically they loaded the cargo pallets all wrong and unbalanced the plane. Offending pallet was, naturally, the last one to be taken back off. SO I arrived at MAD at stupid O'Clock.
Echo the baggage comment above also - HBO at MAD is the way forward.
The lounge in T4S is nicer than that in the main terminal though (if you're outbound from MAD)