More on Air travel disruptions in Spain.

Now, after 11 months I finally get around to writing a post on my blog, and it resulted rather sympathetic to the Air Traffic Controllers in Spain who are disrupting air travel with a stealthy undeclared strike, in which most of them don't show up to work allegedly for medical reasons, and thus reduce the number of flights that can be handled by the system.
A bit like traffic police who have nearly quit fining drivers ( some reports say that the number of fines has gone down 85% lately).
Having experimented a 5% decrease in my salary, because the government needs money to keep on paying for all the political appointees ( not one such position has been eliminated, it is only professional civil servants who see their grades reduced arbitrarily), a few hours ago my sympathies were with the Controllers. However, I am now stranded at Madrid airport where my connecting flight is only 2 hours late, hopefully. That is after a scheduled 8 hour stop because it was the cheapest option for the government.
Of course a top politician who was also on my inbound flight this morning, but in business class, has long left in a previous but more expensive flight than the one I got booked by the powers that be.
So I am having a difficult time maintaining my sympathy for those guys who are supposed to get us all home safely. My respect for our politicians is also lower than it was it this morning, if that were possible. So I have decided to keep both posts on the blog. 11 months without activity and two posts today! And at 11 pm I guess the night is still young....