Re: Dubai Ground Freq
Firstly, apologies for the thread creep. Totally off subject, but since I might have a DXB ATCO or two reading this thread (and hopefully their bosses), when oh when are the P.T.B. going to come to the rather novel conclusion that the UAE is one country and institute ONE air traffic service handling the heavy volumes of traffic into Dubai and the three or four other major(-ish) airports close by?
The controllers working Dubai Approach must pull their hair out nightly not being able to take over arriving traffic until UAE down the road in the capital have their slice of the action. Wouldn't it be easier for all concerned if one agency handled the arriving traffic from the time it crossed into the UAE FIR? Is this politics or is there a good reason for the current setup? Our employers go to great lengths to try to save fuel and then we see much of these savings thrown away daily arriving at our home base following altitude restraints that are there only as far as I can see because of UAE / Dubai transfer requirements. (The same applies to the <F270 requirement leaving Muscat airspace, but let's leave that alone for now.)
Getting back to the subject of the thread, I too would really love to see DXB introduce data link for airways clearances. Getting a word in edgeways, both when trying to get push back clearance and (as has been mentioned already), when clearing the runway after landing, can involve quite a delay in Dubai’s ever widening 'rush hours'.