5th Feb 10
Spanish air traffic controllers strike could cause Easter holiday chaos
by Adam Richards
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of travellers will face chaos when travelling over the Easter peak period if strike across Spain go ahead.
A pay dispute involving air traffic controllers, who can earn up to £800,000, is threatening to turn into a strike. It would commence prior to the year’s first long holiday, hitting 400,000 Britons.
The action would ground or delay up to thousands of flights in and out of Spanish airports, including popular tourist hotspots such as Mallorca, Malaga, Alicante and the Canary Islands.
A spokesman for the Air Transport Users Council, James Fremantle, said that Easter Holidays were a peak time, it’s a particularly bad time to strike. People would be stuck at airports for quite a few days.
Unions representing the controllers said that travellers could face massive delays and cancellations, unless a pay deal was reached between the country’s airports authority by March 31.
The dispute is over proposed plans to reduce the air traffic controllers’ salaries by up to 40 per cent. They currently get a basic wage of £175,000, which is 3 times the salary of their UK counterparts, but some can earn as much as £800,000 a year.
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