New Dubai Controllers
Noticed a lot of new "local accents," while flying in and out of Dubai over the last half year. Some of these guys are pretty hard to understand and the quality of handling is, in my opinion, not up to the high standards that we are used to at Dubai. The South Africans, Brits and American controllers used to do a suburb job (and still do) and it is a shame that ATC is being diluted with locals. I suppose it all has to do with the big push in the UAE to push out and replace xpats with local talent.
Anybody else have an opinion?