Most people regard UK ATC as being pretty good, if not the best around
No they don`t. Only Brits do, cause they think they are superior in every which way of life.... In fact, some dialects spoken by UK ATC are very, very hard to understand for people not from the UK. Try Scottish control or some of the east enders working in London...(Shanwick?)....horrible.
The best in Europe are the Dutch, hands down. AMS in rush hour - thats brilliant ATC for you.
Given the numbers of non Spanish speaking airlines now basing a lot of flights out of BCN not speaking the international language of aviation is inexcusable.
English is the Official Language of Aviation...
In aviation, where English should be the universal language, why would ATC comms need to be translated? When will the Spanish move to all English comms?
Well as far as I know, Spanish is an official ICAO language. Whilst an all english enviroment would be desirable, the poor atco might have to speak spanish if spoken to by the pilot ?
Get away with your ignorance and learn a little bit of English.
The winner for taodays most pompous statement !