Local Affairs Editor
From behind the wheel, and from this same seat, he has always been stuck over the clouds, Captain Maher Salman sat, but this time everything was different; The weight of the last trip was too big to hide his smile, a journey that collected half a century of giving in a few hours between amphitheater.
He was not in the cockpit alone.
Thus, at a moment when the feelings were overwhelmed and the memories were overwhelmed, Captain Maher Salman completed his last journey as a commander of the plane, ending an exceptional march that spanned nearly half a century, which started when he was a sixteen -year -old boy, embraces the dream of flying with bright eyes and a heart whispering with the love of heaven.
Since its inception, the flying profession was not just a job, but rather an extension of his soul. In the roar of the engines, he found his own music, and in the clouds a homeland is not like anywhere.
He lived his life between clouds, weaves the threads of passion thousands of trips, leaving an indelible imprint in the memory of the sky.
The last journey with the residence (Layover), which lasted from 16 to 19 July, was different, was not just a journey from Bahrain to Rome, but a silent farewell between a man and the space he embraced for decades.
He sat in his seat as he used to, but this time he was accompanied by the most expensive passengers on his heart: his wife, his daughters, and four of his grandchildren, they came to witness the moment when the grandfather folded his own legend.
The day, July 21, 2025, concluded his last trip to Dubai (without residence), accompanied by his assistant in the cockpit and his son Talal, who was the moment partner in an influential symbolic scene.
That journey was a calm surrender to the march, as the son sat next to his father, not only as an assistant, but a natural heir for years of experience and commitment, witnessing the movement of the flag from generation to generation, and from a heart that loved the sky … to a heart that grew up and grew up on it.
Today, Captain Maher returns to Earth, but the sky will remain a witness to the story of a man who loved her from a young age.
