Ground control to cockpit suite

I’m reclining in my leather chair reading a newspaper in the first-class lounge of a jumbo jet, enjoying a view of the runway. This will be my home for the next 12 hours.  The difference this time is that there is no pilot on board, I have no life vest under my seat and I’m not flying anywhere. Instead, I am ‘overnighting’ at the Jumbo Stay ‘hotel’ at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport.

Inside the cockpit suite at the "Jumbo" hostel.

 Click here to read the full article. (Published in the Sunday Times of Malta, January 1, 2012.)