Bravo Granny Smith.............. you must have waaaaay too much time on your hands
Agree with everything in your post but one thing needs to keep being reiterated.......THIS AIN'T EUROPE!!!!! Why is the Atis so long ? 'Cos here not every crew checks their NOTAMS. Why do we have a problem with runway occupancy? 'Cos everyone thinks it's only Dubai we can relax ie. High speed turnoffs, they're called that for a reason, so no crawling off the runway please. Frequency congestion? 'Cos crews standard of English is pitiful and certain sub continent pilots insist on everything being confirmed twice over. We could make this place run really smoothly but we keep having to cope with the lowest common denominator, all it takes is one pilot on arrivals with a bad command of English (usual with a heavy russian accent), who isn't following instrustions and everything slows down.
ASNO We've just been applying a blanket 20m flow over the last 2 nights when it's been busy. It worked pretty well but tell me why, if you guys do so much sequencing is everything left unil last minute? Once everything enters the holds, it's impossible for us to work out the order as everyone in the centre seems to have a different idea on how a hold works. Why when we put flow on can't you give crews a time to leave Desdi to achieve the required spacing rather than vectoring them? Even give it to them as they enter your airspace so they can arrange their flight accordingly? I personally like the proactive approach (I'll take that one on this heading, at this speed followed by....) but not all centre controllers like doing that.
Rgds FT