A319
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Confusion; Workload
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Procedure
Lately I have done multiple trips into MMMX. This place is a disaster waiting to happen. Each time the arrival is an improvised; non-standard procedure depending on the whims of whichever controller happens to be working that day. Arrival procedures are ridiculously complicated; completely non-standard; unlike procedures anywhere else in the world that I have ever gone. There are never ending; constantly ordered turns to headings to intercept multiple radials; demands to expedite descent and slow down simultaneously; being placed on different airways than the published arrival contains and then told to descend via even though you're no longer on the arrival itself!! I could go on and on but you've likely heard all this before.
A319 Captain reported concern about the non-standard procedures and ATC inconsistencies during arrivals to MMMX.