I watched passengers in every cabin come and go. Now I write the stories I lived up at 30,000 feet.

I still complain about passengers, but now I do it in articles. I write about different cabins and how class and privilege exist on a plane. I worked for Emirates, so my aviation stories come from the world of large international carriers and long‑haul flying—not low‑cost airlines.

Everything I write about flying comes from my personal experience, not from Emirates or any airline’s official position.

Some of these stories are angry, some are funny, some are tired. All of them were lived. This is the plane as I knew it: my former living room, my workplace, and one of the clearest places to see how people really behave when they are strapped into a seat at 30,000 feet.