Spain recovers after air traffic controllers strike
All Spanish airports are starting to recover after the walkout of all 2.200 air traffic controllers, 442 of which are now facing disciplinary procedures for their illegal mass walkout on Friday afternoon (3rd December 2010). The government has guaranteed that this will not happen again after rushing through a law that allowed the military to take control of the Spanish airspace on Friday night at 21.30. Yesterday 97% of the air traffic controllers were at work and around 335.000 people traveled through Spanish airports. There have been criticism towards the government claiming that the air traffic controllers are now working ‘like prisoners with soldiers and police standing behind them’ while the government have said that they will never be blackmailed again.
Good for the Spanish Military, they should adopt this approach in Britain, it would stop all this strikes nonsense.
we were turned back to Manchester about a third of the way to Tenerife on the saturday morning, then turned back to Tenerife when we were told the strike was over, then turned back to Manchester again after being told the strike was back on again, it was totally irresponsible of Thomas cook to even take off in the first place knowing the probable outcome