if it is any consolation it is going to get worse before it gets better.
As foxxie said this place is a mess. The bad vectoring, speed ups & slow downs and delays are going to get worse. The regions traffic build up
is now also resulting in a/c going from en-route holding in Muscats airspace to join the BUBIN hold, last week an Emirates flight from SA was delayed for nearly an hour due to traffic alone.
At the UAE (DESDI & BUBIN holds) we are heading for a staffing crisis this summer with a run of resignations. I would guess that 5min departure slots will become the norm as well as the 20Nm arrival sequence for Dubai.
I am not going to bag the DXB approach guys cause they are under the same pressure if not worse than we are. I would also like to thank the Muscat troops who helped us out the other night, get used to the holding fellas
You won't get too many turns from me , I like 'hold at', EAT's (SDT's) & 'turn inbound' .....mostly cause I can't tell me left from right
and foxxie it's SDT's - stack departure times, my STD's cleared up before I left the merchant navy
