Whe are stuck with someone,( in the town South of here,) who is of the opinion, that his plans are the best in the world and that his surname ,should infact, have been Icao.! Someone laying down the law, who has never even work here, or at any other BIG airport.
This very point has been made repeatedly by quite a few ATC respondents on this site, and seems to be the major - (the only?) - stumbling block preventing the problem being fixed.
We keep hearing that "management reads these threads", but to date, I've seen no evidence that they ever react to what they see written here. They certainly don't react to letters written to them inhouse by their line pilots on this point, so I suppose it's a bit unrealistic to think they might react to something they see here on a public forum.
But we can live in hope, for I still can't get my head around the fact that EK (and, I assume, EY) senior management, constantly harping on the theme "save fuel at at any cost", seem content to allow this one man's intrangience to cost them what must surely amount to millions of dirhams a year in unnecessary fuel burn.