Post by Amisha Das

He apologised for being distracted on our call. There was a permit issue in Riyadh. I told him to go handle it. He said, “No, it’s fine. I can do both.” He couldn’t. Nobody can. For the next 20 minutes, he was physically present on the call and mentally somewhere over the Gulf. Answering emails while nodding. Typing while saying, “Yes, absolutely.” Half his brain on the permit. Half on our conversation. Fully present in neither. I’ve thought about that call a lot. Not because he was rude. Because he was trying so hard not to be. He’d been trained by the industry, by expectation, by years of being the person everyone relied on to never let anything drop. Not the permit. Not the call. Not the client. Not the ops. All of it. All the time. That’s not resilience. That’s a person at capacity pretending they’re not. How many people in aviation are operating like this right now? #Aviation #AviationOps #PrivateAviation #BusinessAviation #AviationIndustry #Leadership #Burnout #AviationManagement #OperationalExcellence #CorporateAviation #PilotLife #AviationLeadership #AirportOperations #WorkplaceCulture #MentalHealthAtWork