ADEN to AMMAN (ADE-AMM) on Royal Jordanian Airlines A319-100 E195 in business class
During the transit dawn had broken.
The flight was similar in reverse. The cockpit door flew open on takeoff. I dozed some more. The load was again relatively light despite the zeroed availability showing the day before.
We had nice views for much of the way. The landscape was quite varied, with initial sandy plains soon giving way to rocky mountains. The shadows cast by the low sun angle accenuated some features and hid others. The high mountains gave way to lower hills. Here some broad meandering rivers marked out by the different coloured sandy bed. In other parts the rivers were smaller and cut deep twisty gashes across the land.
Mostly there was no sign of life, until we got closer to Amman. Green crop circles showed some areas of irrigation.
Our descent seemed to take the cabin crew by surprise. As we passed over the edge of the airport all were still standing with a rush to get seated in any convenient seat (whether crew or passenger seat) in the very last seconds.