Ferris

Not something you do too often anymore since your hasty leaving of the UAE.

:cool:

I've interviewed several times with Serco and been told that I'm highly qualified, but each time I'm told at the end of the interview, "oh you're over 50, we can't hire you."

I have 25 years as an FAA tower and radar approach controller at busy airports, and I've been working the past 3 years since I retired in Afghanistan at the busiest single runway airbase in the world (average over 1000 operations per day), but I'm too old for Serco?

Working within combat zones be it Iraq or Afghanistan isn't all that great, so you can imagine we would readily accept a job in the UAE. Though the money is good, "Quality of life is more important".

"The GCAA has heavily invested in a full and integrated Nationalisation Program since 1998 and are actively recruiting National cadets to fill positions on the tough training course presented at the Training School at the Shaikh Zayed Air Navigation Centre in Abu Dhabi. An Air Traffic Control Awareness campaign was initiated by the Shaikh Zayed Air Navigation Centre in 2011."

What's the odds this spells the end for expat controllers in the UAE?

The day the nationalisation program really kicks in and the expats are no longer required I will have been pushing daisies for a hundred years or so.:O