
Since 2003, Dave Thomas has been manager of meteorological services at the department of civil aviation, Dubai International Airport. Recruited by IAL (now Serco-IAL) as an aviation meteorologist for Abu Dhabi International Airport in 1983, he was accredited as a chartered meteorologist by the Royal Meteorological Society in 1994. From 1999 to 2003, he held the post of deputy manager at Dubai Airport.
Dubai International Airport is about to take delivery of a state-of-the-art meteorological system.