Hello!
at around 14:30z, Spanish ATCO´s will have the opportunity to explain our situation in Spain.
My colleagues Ignacio Ruipérez (president of ATC Petition) and Camilo Cela (president of USCA), will have each 5 minutes to try to explain the last 16 months of persecution and denigration suffered in our country in the hands of unscrupulous politicians. It hasn´t been easy for them to get this opportunity, as Spanish politicians, both from the left and the rigth side, have tried to abort it. We don´t expect much from this, but at least nobody can accuse us of not trying to sound bells and whistles before ...
You can read further in these links:
El presidente de ATC Petition, ya est en Bruselas
Tndem Ruiprez-Cela en un da histrico para el control areo espaol
The speeches are broadcasted live here:
Comisión de Peticiones
Among other details:
-- 47 class A (near misses) incidents last year in Spanish airspace (8.29 incidents every 100.000 movements, 20.000 people involved);
-- 922.000 minutes of delay from jan-may 2011, a 66% increase since the same period in 2010;
-- more than a hundred ATCO´s "disappear" from AENA´s reports after a clarification was demanded by EUROCONTROL (the numbers provided by AENA in the lasts years were false, with the intention of presenting Spanish ATCO´s less productive than other European colleagues):
-- AENA management plans to reduce delays by increasing sector capacity between 30%-60%, reducing horizontal separation from 8 to 5 miles, reducing training periods for new ATCO´s they plan to move from towers to ACC´s, and stablishing single-man positions.
What do you think about this?
Saludos!