. . . if it is a punishment, it indeed is an unequal one, as it descriminates against non-UAE air carriers (I wonder whether they go through the same level of in other FIR's for similar flight planning sins . . . or perhaps there are never mistakes committed in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah???
). As soon as an Emirati aircraft is into UAE airspace he is probably in descent anyways.
Imagine the volume of sqawking if what goes around, comes around and Bahrain, Muscat, or Jeddah made Emirates, Etihad, or Air Arabia flights head down into the nether regions!
Common sense out with the baby and the bathwater.