Hi all,
Firstly, thanks to the mods for making this a sticky. And thanks to other posters for positive feedback.
Secondly, ladies and gents at the sharp end, we in ATC understand your pain about elongated taxi routes, and yes glf all traffic landing 30L must vacate left off the runway regardless because of too many runway incursions, and yes landing 12L and then taxing to M13B is a pain but it's all in response to a few extremely serious/close runway incursions where flightcrew crossed red stop bars and taxied onto the departing runway into the path of rolling aircraft without any clearance, it wouldn't be fair or right to say anymore than that on a public forum. Unfortunately we are allowed very little flexibility in regards to taxi routes for inbound aircraft, much to ours and your frustration.
Can you help us and each other?
Yes, please do not cross red stop bars, challenge us on the RT, and refuse to move unless we switch it off, bear in mind though that if you are slow on the line up as EK 777 and 380's are for various reasons, then the stop bar will time out after 60 seconds and we will have to deactivate it again, we do try to be proactive with this. And just before there are any complaints, EK are very good at not crossing reds, but anecdotal evidence suggests that operators from other parts of the GCC and sub continent may be used to a slack approach to the reds at their base airports and as such there's a belief that it's ok to cross the red bar here at DXB.
Finally, can I ask you to maybe print off the original posting and show it to colleagues on your next trip so that we can get as much flight crew exposure to the theory of the new procedures.
Much appreciated,
Yellow Snow.