Seems you still donīt know it, but here in Spain the controllers DO NOT DECIDE what rwy is used. We just follow orders from our chief supervisor or whoever gives that orders.
And stop complaining against the "flight plan route" routine. Itīs legal, itīs recomended and is safer. We managed to reduce the 47 A class incidents of 2010, so itīs clearly safer.
I am not sure about BCN, but for you all to know, in LEMD on sundays we CAN NOT use both RWY 18 until 9:00. Something about noise. So, if the wind changes between 7 and 8 and RWY 33 is no longer used for APP you will have very high delays... of course you will blame the controllers for that (seems we pray for that wind change). Very easy to understand:
7am: RWY 33 in use, capacity for both RWYs 50/hour. So they take off... then wind changes and single RWY 18 is in use until 09:00 when the start arriving. Big delays, lots of holdings and we are the bad guys.
Again, controllers DO NOT DECIDE what rwy is used in Spain, maybe we did years before, but not now.