The full kit: 12 things I've seen AirAsia crews pull from their pockets during monsoon season
Okay, real talk? I've been flying since I was a kid - family holidays, uni trips, you name it. Last year during a crazy monsoon delay at KLIA, I got chatting with this super nice AirAsia auntie who'd been flying for like 15 years. She saw me struggling with dry lips and frizzy hair from the humidity, and just... pulled out her little pouch of flight essentials. Not the fancy stuff you see on Instagram, but actual affordable things that work when you're stuck in a metal tube for hours. She told me: "Dik, we're not allowed to carry much, but these few things? We'd lose our jobs without them." I was hooked. Over the next few months, I kept bumping into crew members at different airports (seriously, Malaysia is small!), and each time I'd ask what they swear by. No paid promotions, no brand deals - just real people sharing what actually saves their skin and sanity during those brutal KL-Phuket flights in monsoon season. The best part? Most cost less than your teh tarik order. Here's everything they showed me - the good, the weird, and the "seriously this works?!" items I now carry everywhere.