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Last September FerroNATS, a joint venture between the two companies, won contracts to provide air traffic control at 10 Spanish airports. Spanish-speaker Mr Hammond, who is married to Opposition MP Isobel Ellul-Hammond, was a natural choice to help manage the new set-up in the Spanish airports and ensure a smooth handover from AENA. But the appointment of a Gibraltarian to oversee critically-important operations at Spanish airports drew criticism from Spanish controllers in an article by the conservative Spanish media outlet COPE. This week AENA dismissed their concerns as unfounded.
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