Originally Posted by JDiver
Regardless of who spoke Castilian or who spoke Swedish, I seem to recall English is the language most used in ATC communications?
In Spanish ATC both languages are used .
Spanish speaking pilots communicate mainly in Spanish with Spanish ATC .
This irritates some pilots specially british but AENA allow this and will continue to do .
In OUR country we Speak the language we Want.
I have notice also that lots of FT's complains regarding IB is that not everydoby at all times is able to comunicate with them in english , and THEY consider this to be a FAULT !!! . UNBELIABLE.
Fist time i went to london in the 80's I was negate service because i didn't remembered the english word for sin "cebolla" ( onions) . I just was ignored and the next in the cew got service .
I haven't forgot that...
Here when a tourist don't know the language the people make efforts to comunicate , not the case in London as I corroborate them.
ALL ATCC controllers of course can speak english fluently and communicate in english with anybody initianting the conversation in english .
English is the universal language of aviation .
No language barrier here at all.
Perhaps a "cultural barrier" , perhaps they didn't knew of santiago ? .. and assumed that the code should be SVQ , sevilla ?
Perhaps the brief ACMI lease with Nordic is even over now?
I think you are asking so much for SAS ...