Booked my flights 08May Johannesburg/Madrid/Munich , return 04June 2019 Basel/Madrid/Johannesburg on Internet on their cheapest tariff. Highly recommend that this airline puts the following remark at the top of their internet Iberia booking schedule That if you book on their cheapest air fare and need your suitcase to go into the hold you have to pay a hefty extra fee !!!!!. I landed up paying twice on outgoing and return flights Euro 45 which amounted in total to over R 1600.00. So this is not a cheap tariff and this is misleading the public.
Furthermore they cancelled my connecting flight from Basel to Madrid on the return flight but this flight was cancelled totally of their weekly flight schedule from Mondays to Sundays , no apologies or reason for this cancellation via the internet booking. Very annoying as I had an overlay of 10 hours at Madrid airport before a ten hour flight.So another disaster with this airline. I then enquired and found out that one could book into a lounge for Euro 35 again at passenger,s expense where one could have a free lunch, dinner, coffee or sleep there if one was tired.
So overall a very bad experience and thank god Iberia will no longer be flying into South Africa as off 30/9/2019 ! However, whilst queueing at Madrid airport to board the homebound flight, I heard quite a few passengers complaining about this unmentioned additional charge for baggage to go into the hold .