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Inflight Magazines
From Seatback to Sofa
About the Founder
Some Stories Take a Lifetime to Land
Aviation was never something I chose. It was inherited - shaped by my father's career, deepened by my own, and present in almost every chapter of my life since.
When my father arranged for me, as a young boy, to visit Concorde's flight deck and sit in the Captain's seat, it was not just a memorable day. It was the moment a fascination became something deeper.
This website exists because of a lifetime spent at 35,000 feet, and a love that was quietly building the whole time.
Welcome onboard.
I hope you enjoy inflightmagazines.com.
Sunil - Founder, inflightmagazines.com
Pictures: Young Sunil, bedroom wall covered with aircraft, and sitting in the Captain's seat on Concorde.
A Family Affair
My father spent most of his working life with British Airways and its predecessor, BOAC. My brother and sister also enjoyed careers with British Airways, on the groung and in the air.
Aviation was the backdrop to my childhood and growing up, not as an abstract dream but as something lived.
My bedroom walls were covered with aircraft posters. Over 200 model aeroplanes filled every shelf. Every school project somehow found its way back to the sky.
And above every other aircraft, one commanded a reverence all of its own, Concorde. That unmistakable silhouette, that extraordinary roar.
Pictures: Like father, like son, we both flew on Concorded, on separate flights.
British Airways, Concorde, and Two Pilot Licences
I joined British Airways and enjoyed a successful career spanning various business functions, in operations and head office roles.
Inspired by aviation and space, I earned two private pilot licences: my CAA licence in the UK and my FAA licence in Denver, Colorado.
I then commenced ATPL training, the qualification required to fly commercially. An untimely and unexpected medical condition brought that chapter to a close.
But aviation had other plans. The role that followed was one I could not have written for myself.
Having grown up in awe of Concorde, I was appointed Product and Service Development Manager for British Airways Concorde and played an instrumental part in her return to service following its grounding after the Air France tragedy in 2000. A privileged role that enabled me to fly on Concorde more times than the British Airways executive team.
On my first anniversary with British Airways, the management gifted me a ticket to fly on Concorde to New York. Years later, I was the person responsible for the Concorde experience.
When Concorde retired in 2003, I carried that same passion into my next role, leading product and service development for British Airways' First class. Every role I held at British Airways was, at its heart, the same pursuit: understanding what makes an experience genuinely memorable, and then building it.
Pictures: Hour Building After Gaining my Private Pilot's License, and Colonel Chris Hadfield - NASA Mission Specialist (Space Shuttle) and Commander ISS (International Space Station.
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The Skills to Build It. The Connection to Sustain It.
Years after leaving British Airways, I founded a digital agency - born from the same instinct that shaped every role I held at the airline: build something well, build it with care, and never outsource or offshore the parts that matter.
The agency is a META Certified web developer, Cyber Essentials certified, with professional accreditations in AI, web development, and SEO. Award-winning recognition includes:
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Invited by OpenAI to participate in their first UK SME AI Accelerator programme.
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Winner of the Technology and Digital Excellence Award in the Hillingdon Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2026.
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Winner of SME News Most Client-Focused Web Design Agency (2024, 2025) - Southeast England.
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Winner of SME News SEO Visionary Leadership Award (2025) - Southeast England.
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Competitive grant application award from DSIT (Department for Science, Information & Technology) and the Central Research Laboratory to support access to advanced AI training.
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Listed on the UK government's Register of Learning Providers as an AI training provider.
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OneTrust Certified Responsible AI Professional.
inflightmagazines.com is built entirely in-house. Every page, every line of code, every search optimisation decision.
And the connection to aviation endures beyond the platform.
I serve as a Board Trustee of the Heathrow Community Trust, Heathrow Airport Limited's independent charity - a governance role that keeps me actively embedded in the aviation community I have always belonged to.
Heathrow Community Trust proudly celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026, and it was a source of personal and professional pride for me to develop its anniversary website pro bono.
Pictures: Selection of related logos.
Hundreds of Flights. One Favourite Thing
Between my father's career, my childhood, and my years at British Airways, aviation has taken me around the world more times than I can count. Hundreds of flights. Dozens of airlines. Different kinds of aircraft and hundreds of seatbacks.
And through all of that time in the air, one touchpoint stood apart. Not the meal service, not the amenity kit, but the inflight magazine.
There is something a great inflight magazine does that no other travel content quite manages.
It celebrates culture, lifestyle, fashion, destination, and the spirit of going somewhere through the lens and pen of writers and photographers who have actually been there. Felt it. Lived it. Brought it back for you. It reflects the character of the airline that produces it and, by extension, the place that airline calls home.
Every title has its own editorial identity - its own voice, its own sense of the world.
A well-crafted inflight magazine does not feel like filler. It feels like an invitation. And I accepted that invitation on every flight I ever took.
Pictures: Unopened for 50 Years - BOAC 747 Classic Airfix model kit. A pair of Concorde seats gifted by British Airways.
You Do Not Have to be on Plane to Read One.
Many airlines continue to offer print editions onboard - that familiar, unhurried pleasure of turning a page at altitude.
Others have extended their reach through digital editions, PDFs and interactive flipbooks, hosted on their own websites or through third-party platforms. Thoughtful in intent, but scattered in execution.
inflightmagazines.com changes that.
One destination for inflight magazines from airlines around the world, accessible on any device, at any time.
Whether you are a frequent flyer staying connected to a title you love or a curious reader discovering, for the first time, that an airline's magazine is, in itself, a window into a culture and a way of seeing the world, the journey continues here.
The platform is built and search-optimised entirely in-house by my award-winning, Cyber Essentials certified digital agency, based in Windsor, UK - a team with professional accreditations in AI, web development, and SEO. No outsourcing. No offshoring. The same care that went into every onboard experience I ever worked on has gone into building this.
The inflight magazine has always deserved a bigger stage.
Now it has one.
inflightmagazines.com
My Time with the Iconic Concorde.
Pictures Below
Invitation to attend Concorde's return to service operational assessment flight following the Air France Concorde tragedy.
Signed book from Concorde Captain and author of The Concorde Story - Christopher Olebar.
The pilot and cabin crew of the last Concorde flight signed the inside cover with a message.
Certificate of recognition from the British Airways Chairman and CEO for Services to Concorde.
