By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations It is 9:45 PM. Your flight to Bangkok departs at 10:30 PM. You are at the gate, boarding pass in hand. The aircraft is there. The weather is clear. Everything looks normal. Then the gate agent picks up the microphone: “Ladies and gentlemen, … 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 The hardest part of my job is not planning a flight through a typhoon, or calculating fuel for a 6-hour oceanic crossing, or managing a diversion at 2 AM to an airport where we have no ground handling. The hardest part is making … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations September 2025. Super Typhoon Ragasa—Category 5, sustained winds of 230 km/h, the most powerful storm the world saw that year. It tore through the Philippines, slammed into Taiwan, shut down Hong Kong International Airport for nearly 36 hours, and forced the cancellation of … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed Flight Dispatcher | 15+ Years in Airline Operations You are sitting at the gate. Your boarding time was 10 minutes ago. The screen flickers. “DELAYED — New departure time: to be confirmed.” No explanation. No one at the counter seems to know anything. The passenger next to you mutters, “Typical.” I … Read more