cessnapete - not sure what dogends of conversation and rumour you've been picking up but most of what you've posted is sensationalist dogs eggs.
Cyprus isn't brilliant and they could do with reopening the aircrew feeder but meals are available in the messes out of hours and the aircraft themselves are rammed full of food anyway. No-one sleeps in unmade rooms.
Facilities at the destination may not be 5 star but plenty of other AT crews cope with them and indeed manage to survive for a month at a time in them without plunging from the sky. Not sure what CAA rules you think are being broken but slip patterns are managed within crew duty regulations, not just randomly made up.
The crews may not like the facilities and conditions they work under but that is mostly tough. Continually citing Flight Safety for everything that irks you serves no purpose and indeed repeatedly crying wolf will eventually bite you on the arse when you have something actually important to highlight.
PS. I'm not an apologist for the "system" or Akrotiri. I'm just a humble AT bloke who's been doing the job for 15 years with plenty of experience of all this stuff. Some people just need to man the f@ck up.
PPS. FSTA will have DAS, slick, non-centreline versions will be bought forward to next year, TriStar binned 2011. StopStarts's SDSR prediction for the day.