MADRID – Spanish air traffic controllers have called partial strikes over four days in June as the summer holiday season kicks off, triggering memories of the traffic ***** they caused in 2010.

The USCA controllers’ labours union called the ****** Wednesday to ******* fines and suspensions against 61 members for their part in the ****** in 2010 that wreaked havoc for travellers across Europe.

The union plans two-hour morning and evening stoppages June 8, 10, 12 and 14.

Spain placed the country’s airspace under military management in December 2010 after controllers staged a 24-hour wildcat ****** over work conditions that closed Spain’s airports and left 600,000 travellers ******** ahead of a national holiday.

It was the first time Spain implemented a “state of alarm” since the country returned to democracy in 1978.