“I find flying extroverting – it puts your attention outside yourself – you're responsible for a machine that's going through the air at 600 mph. The sensation is thrilling and there's a beauty and an art form to it, “ he says.

Travolta sees both similarities and differences between the skills of flying and acting.

“As an actor you're focused on memorizing lines and concentrating on the emotional motivation. In a plane it's different – it's nonemotional but you have to have the same kind of focus and keep up your attention. You're concentrating on exterior things, rather than looking inward to the mind and there are major consequences if you don't do it right.”

Travolta has a passion for technical and service perfection with utmost safety of operations always the number-one priority.

“We try to run the flight department as if it were a five-star airline. I've created checklists for every aspect of the operation – we strive for technical perfection and for passenger service perfection. We have handwritten menus, luggage tags, special meal services, top-quality bedding and time-to-destination announcements just like on the Concorde.”

In this aviation department flight deck talent leans toward the side of overqualification.