Hey Invictus, the computerised flow system would be nice, but even without that what we could do right now is have a dedicated flow position in Dubai, who sits and works out the sequence, and then works back from that sequence the time each aircraft needs to arrive at BUBIN/DESDI/MIADA/MAXMO and passes the time to the relevant controller. Then the relevant controller does whatever they decide is needed to achieve that. The working out of the time would not be hard, as most other APP units around the world do it with no problems so why would it be different here.
Then when the poop hits the fan and we as Area controllers, in possession of the time each aircraft needs to pass the relevant inbound gate, would simply hold each aircraft until such time we could bring them in to meet said time. This would also allow us to tell each aircraft an accurate estimated arrival time, rather than now where, due to us not knowing if you are going to take aircraft from the East or West stack, we have to just guess when they will hold till, which makes the whole thing a farce.
So, someone please tell me reasons why the above system wouldn't work, and why it wouldn't make things run a lot smoother, and in the process remove most of the animosity between Area and App in one hit. Cheers.