Few careers take you around the world. Fewer still, keep you there for 45 years. But that’s been Captain Manoj Mavadia’s reality—a life spent above the clouds, with 39 of those years at Kenya Airways, witnessing its takeoffs, landings, and everything in between.
It’s a warm Tuesday morning when we meet Captain Mavadia at the Kenya Airways head office in Nairobi. Dressed sharply in his pilot’s uniform, he is disarmingly easygoing—smiling, laughing, and quick to share stories of his longest journeys, most memorable moments, and the emergencies that tested his skill.
