Originally Posted by
ffay005
Do people fly to the US via MAD? Without looking at IB TATL schedules, my guess would be that eastbound might work, westbound not so.
I did it once thanks to an AAdvantage award, MCO-ORD-MAD-HEL with 2h layover at MAD. You are absolutely right about the schedule, east bound works occasionally but never westbound.
AA agent at MCO was confused about the rounting commenting that people usually don't fly to HEL that way.