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Old 30th Aug 2011, 07:10
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Paper Lad
 
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Many of these places are just plain dangerous. They have unhelpful, sometimes obstructive ATC., with basic facilities, weather reports that have no resemblance to what is actually going on, runway surface conditions that are awful and the people in the tower are only interested in the aircraft registration and the number of peeps through security.

If it were not for the professionalism of the crew from the ME carriers who operate in and out of these places there would be many more incidents.

Unfortunately, all the Indian destinations are too important to the ME economies for what can be best described as modern day slave routes.
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