AS controllers' salaries and work hours did slowly improve, the more militant among them kept asking for more.
Underlying the polemic is a €300 million annual deficit at Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea, A.E.N.A., the public body that manages Spain's 48 state-run airports and pays controllers' salaries.
On the other hand, if you have seen this crowd in action, you know it's a wonder that they've managed to keep paying the air traffic controllers' salaries.
"When you do that, the willingness to work extra hours increases because of the money associated with it, and they managed to meet capacity needs by paying controllers high salaries".
For many, it should have started the day before when Spain's air traffic controllers – average salary: €350,000 (£296,000) – declared a wildcat strike that, on a bank holiday weekend, left more than 650,000 passengers grounded.
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt's salary is between £250,000 and £280,000 – a band higher than her BBC2 counterpart Janice Hadlow and BBC3 controller Danny Cohen who are both on £220,000 to £250,000.
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt's salary is between £250,000 and £280,000 – a band higher than her BBC2 counterpart Janice Hadlow, who is on £220,000 to £250,000, the same level as BBC3 controller Danny Cohen.
Previously, Wu started work for Russell Fischer Inc. in 2008 as a controller with a salary of $70,000, the district attorney's office said.
As city controller, Greuel earns a salary of $182,200 a year.
Why are air traffic controllers worth their salary?
Garcetti asked why Greuel hadn't posted DWP employee salaries on her controller's web site, and questioned why Greuel's eight audits of the DWP found zero dollars in waste.
