I am headed from NCE to GIG in a couple of weeks. I would normally just take the BA connection via LHR but Ms B Watson is on the trip and needs the miles for the Plat Challenge - thus eliminating BA. So - my options are:

1) NCE - LHR - MIA - GIG with AA metal across the Atlantic and to GIG (new F on the LHR-MIA segment BTW)

2) NCE - MAD - GIG on IB - I hear REALLY bad things about IB and have never flown them -

In either case, booking will be in F

Advice please!