Same goes for Muscat. Please, don't even bother asking us for an opposite runway on our freq when heading for the UAE. It usually means an unnecessary call to our comrades over there, if we have time, and we can usually hear the sighs of frustration over the phone, although most of them accept such requests with grace and the odd bit of humour.
It is getting busier by the day and we really can't entertain things out of the ordinary as we used to in days gone by.