The Emperors New Clothes
First of all, having worked in ATC in the Middle East for the last 25 years I think I can safely say that anyone who claims ATC here is “safe” either doesn’t understand what the word means or simply hasn’t worked anywhere else.
For those complaining about the thread including comments on GAL - WAKEY WAKEY, GAL IS ATC in Abu Dhabi, and very likely everywhere else in the region in the very near future.
As has been said before in this thread, GAL HQ has a very competent Middle Management Layer which is not being allowed to function, and a Senior Management layer that doesn’t know how to.
Daily life is a constant round of banging heads on walls as inertia and intelligence battle it out. Sorry - don’t know the Swedish for “Inertia”!
A friend once tried to give up smoking and drinking at the same time, but it was too difficult.
Its a bit like trying to fix ATC and Emiratise.
Let’s get one out of the way so we can see that it can be done before we screw it up with the other.