It would also help if AUH not tell the neighbouring FIRs that Dubai is closed while it isn't. Muscat and Bahrain panicked and planes were held on the ground or outside the FIRs, waiting for a sector to open that was never closed in the first place.
The airport is never closed. Only a moron would get airborne from Muscat or Bahrain et al, just to come and hold and clog up the already over congested frequencies. And the sector is never closed either. It's saturated with planes and R/T and triple transmissions and every pilot and his dog thinking that he is the only one experiencing turbulence. The world of ATC and aviation in general consists of more than just runways and parking bays.
And if anybody from (insert airline) Ops reads this then I have some advice for you:
Don't phone the UAE Area Centre in Abu Dhabi or Dubai Approach and demand to know why your aircraft are delayed. Look out the fu....ng window, you halfwit.
For Dubai & Abu Dhabi Approach I have two words: "Yeah baby!!"
