The UAE ACC has been mis-managed almost into the ground. ANSA is correct about the reason; lack of staff. There have been numerous threads about the ACC on the ATC forum if you are at all interested in the debacle. Look for "the Abu Dhabi Titanic" threads (although they keep getting deleted).
It keeps getting busier, they keep on with the "if you don't like it leave" line, people do, and they can't attract enough replacements.
As an example of that mis-management....
do UAE ACC ever get to talk to Dubai ATC
there is an instruction out actually preventing co-ord for the purpose of expedition. The ACC is not allowed to try and be efficient.
The flow methods themselves are from the 70's, sort of reflecting the management thinking there.
With the price of fuel, you would think that a certain airline based in Dubai might actually ask some questions, and not get snowed by that master of BS, the great Dane. Then again, after reading these forums, it's no wonder the airline managers are baffled by the BS.
