I was just giving some thoughts to this new and unknown italian agreement and I was wondering:
- How many italian ATCOs are they recruiting? Could it be 175? (any italian that can answer this?). Not long ago Mr. Lema said in the media they didn't need more ATCOs. However, now that 175 spanish ATCOs are being judged and are facing 8 to 10 years of prison, all of the sudden we find out that they are recruiting italian ATCOs... Will the spanish government speed up the trials and start sending spanish ATCOs to prison as soon as they start getting fresh foreign replacements?
- Considering we are now all militarized, and somehow feeling it's not going to be the last time, can foreign ATCOs working in Spain be also militarized in the future? The decree militarized ALL air traffic controllers working in Spain, but didn't say anything about nationalities... interesting issue.