Souls on Board: What it’s like to fly strangers across oceans.

The wing of a Boeing 747-400. Mark VanhoenackerAll week, Mark Vanhoenacker will be sharing stories about piloting and planes excerpted from his book Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot. Out now from Knopf.Pilots’ interactions with passengers are limited compared to those of the cabin crew, and so, too, are our understand­ings of the human weight of the journeys we make together.