MADRID, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Spanish airspace has reopened follwing a wildcat strike by air traffic controllers, the country's airport authority AENA said on Saturday.
AENA said on its website that the afternoon shift had begun as normal. It had earlier said controllers were beginning to return to work.
Air traffic was expected to return to normal within 24 to 48 hours, Public Works Minister Jose Blanco said.
Earlier Spain's Socialist government declared a state of emergency and said those controllers who did not return would be breaking the law. [ID:nLDE6B301W]
(Reporting by Paul Day, Editing by Alexander Smith)