Clarify
then handed over to DXB aircraft were being told to take up the hold at DESDI
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Dubai don't issue the hold, UAE control does.
A typical scenario for UAE control is to be providing the required (and extremely excessive) spacing requirements for DXB approach and with no warning (contravening the local agreement for required notice) DXB will call UAE and tell them to hold traffic ultimately making all the original sequencing and speed control process a complete waste of everybody's time.
The reality is with no flow management processes in place, no slot times, antiquated routing structures, poor equipment, horrendous traffic growth, intra Gulf and International political considerations, incompetent management and staff shortages, the troops in all the tower, approach and area units don't stand a hope in hell in providing the more typical service that one comes to expect in many locations through out the world.
Ho hum.....correct me if I am wrong, but aren't these all the same issues that get raised on an almost daily basis in this region. Same crap, different day, welcome to the Middle East.
