Spain Reopens Airspace - WSJ.com

Spain Reopens Airspace - WSJ.com: "Spanish airports and airlines were operating at full capacity on Sunday after the government reopened the country's airspace and forced striking air-traffic controllers to return to work.
Several hundred passengers waited at check-in counters at Madrid-Barajas international airport early Sunday.The government decreed a state of alarm on Saturday, taking emergency measures after controllers throughout the country walked off the job Friday afternoon, forcing authorities to close Spain's airspace for 18 hours and stranding thousands of travelers at the country´s airports.
Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ordered the Defense Ministry to take over air-traffic control Friday night. He then issued a decree Saturday morning requiring controllers to return to their workplaces or face legal action, measures not seen since the times of the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco."

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