Tower Ranger
First, how the heck are you? Longtime no talk...
Re your post about the total $ amount being close to what a controller gets in AUH or DXB, you are quite right -- in terms of "hourly rate".
BUT...
A. The actual amount that goes into one's bank account each month is quite a bit more on the Baghdad contract of course.
B. As all housing and meals are supplied, and there is basically nowhere other than "Big Al's" restaurant and a small convenience store to spend one's money, the amount one saves, or has left in one's account at the end of each month, is MUCH greater than in the UAE. Even if one only pays an average rent in DXB or AUH, and doesn't go to Barasti or Irish Village often...
C. Many of the controllers at BACC are over the age Serco will consider for those other contracts (Bahrain included); and definitely past the age most other countries / ANSPs will accept.
So, for
some "old guys", it can be a good gig.
grizz