Would someone from ATC please like to explain to me what on earth was going on last night with the vectoring onto Dubai.
Whilst I'm most definitely not an air traffic controller and know very little about ATC in general I do know that last night was probably the worst I have ever experienced in my 5 years here in Dubai.
Arriving at just after midnight which I know is a busy time we were asked by UAE to speed up for the descent to 320kts, then handed over to DXB aircraft were being told to take up the hold at DESDI so we put into the FMC the expected hold, 23 miles to run to DESDI on a track of about 125 slow 230kts and turn left HDG 060, after about 5 mins turn right HDG 230 then after about another 5 mins on that HDG turn left track to DESDI. At DESDI HDG 090all the way to the coast then turn right 180 degrees vectoring ILS 12L. All of which used some 2 tonnes extra fuel, not that I care because I don't pay for the stuff, but it was about 15 mins of messing around when i could have been on my way home!
Will someone please explain what is the DESDI hold for? Why fly us all around the GULF on stupid headings and speeds when all you have to do is put us into a published hold, drop us down and pull us out the bottom for the approach. They seem to do it quite well at LHR and other such places so why not here?
ATC please...................Over
