09/11/2026
Today feels different when aviation has been part of your life for 14 years.
September 11 is a day our entire country remembers, but for those of us who have built careers in the airline industry, there’s another layer to it. We work in an industry that was forever changed that morning.
Behind every flight are people. Crews. Customer service agents. Families. Travelers heading home, going to work, celebrating something, or simply trying to get from one place to another.
Today, Nika’s Cupcake Bar pauses to remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001, the families who still carry that loss, the first responders who ran toward danger, and the aviation professionals whose lives and industry were forever changed.
As a business owner, I talk a lot about experiences, connection and the lives we create around the moments we’re given. Today is a reminder of just how precious those moments are.
We remember. We honor. We carry it with us.
September 11, 2001. Never forgotten.