Correct - our DGCA was awarded some Mickey Mouse aviation distinction by the French government. He was paraded like a prize monkey in France and no one should feel surprised if the French get the lucrative deal supplying radar equipment for the new ATCX in return.
Everybody now knows his comments about controllers and even the association raised its concern in writing. The reply was written by one of his subordinates and was only hot air full of praise of controllers. Why did the reply not come from the horses mouth? Why did he not address the controllers himself in order to regain at least a bit of their respect? Now nobody respects him at all.
To tell the truth if the head of a big organization makes this kind of comments he would normally be forced to apologize personally to the people he insulted and most likely he would be sacked. Can’t see that happening here though. Meanwhile, we all get a warm fuzzy feeling thinking about the new runway we’ll get in 10 years time and a possible 5 minute change in our shuttle bus schedule from Tung Chung so we can arrive at work on time and relieve our tired colleagues who have worked all night.
Expect the beatings to continue until morale improves. AMAN!