Kalpit works in United Airlines' finance team in Delhi and flies business class to Europe for ₹10,000. In this episode, he walks us through how airline employee standby travel actually works: the booking process, priority lists, cabin upgrades, Star Alliance partner access (including Air India domestics for ₹2,000), and the stress of not knowing if you'll board until one hour before departure. He shares real stories: getting bumped from business while his sister-in-law waved from her flatbed seat, spending an entire day at Delhi airport trying to get to Goa, and his go-to guaranteed route (Delhi-Munich on the A380, Wednesday 1:50am). Plus: how his cousin flew Vancouver to San Francisco to Tokyo for under $60, why he transfers all his points to hotels instead of airlines, and what Polaris business class is really like.