Thanks for all your great suggestions and ideas. Barcelona is out since we start our trip there but will investigate Malaga vs Madrid.

One more question. My daughteris flying ord bcn svq on a single ticket AA to bcn and then Veuling operated by another carriers aircraft. She has what is legal,carryon for the long flight. Will she be required to check it for the veuling flight and if so can or will it be checked at the gate or does she have to go to checkin desks. It's a J ticket to bcn obviously not beyond. Just trying to figure out whT she will need to do in bcn to connect.

How do we find out if she was assigned a seat on the bcn to svq. If not can she do that on Veuling with the veuling pnr that AA provided.

Thanks again for all your great help. We've done quite a bit of travel but this is first trip to Spain and first on Veuling and as u can tell liketo be prepared.