By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations Cabin pressure airplane effects begin the moment the doors close. You are cruising at 35,000 feet. Outside your window, the temperature is -56°C. The air pressure is roughly one quarter of what it is at sea level. The oxygen level would render you … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations It is 2 AM. The OCC is quiet. Most of the day-shift dispatchers have gone home. But on my screens, dozens of aircraft are crossing the night sky—Seoul to Bangkok, Incheon to Manila, Gimhae to Tokyo. Night flights are in the air, carrying … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations June 2025. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a volcano on the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia, erupted with an ash column that shot 11 kilometers into the sky. The mushroom-shaped cloud was visible from 150 km away. Dozens of volcanic ash flights to and … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations A friend once texted me mid-flight: “There’s a loud thunk under the plane. Are we going to die?” I texted back after she landed: “That was the landing gear. You were never in danger. You were hearing the airplane doing exactly what it … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations Here is something most passengers do not know: every single commercial flight I have ever planned—every one of the tens of thousands I have dispatched in 15 years—was planned with the assumption that an engine might fail. Not because engine failure on an … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations You have been descending for twenty minutes. You felt the landing gear drop—that reassuring thunk. Through the window, you can see the runway. Houses, cars, the airport fence. You are almost there. You tighten your seatbelt. Ten more seconds and you will be … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations A few months ago, a friend called me the night before her flight to Tokyo. She had seen a news report about a plane crash somewhere in the world, and she was terrified. “Be honest with me,” she said. “Is flying safe? Like, … Read more