"Delta requires all its in-flight caterers to adhere to strict criteria in order to offer our customers the very best onboard meals, " Baur told CNN in a statement.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

As a senior manager I spent many hours involved in the hiring process, obtaining headcount approvals, scouring the market for candidates, interviewing those with the best resumes, before finding the chosen one and getting them onboard.

FORBES: Desperately Seeking Feedback - A Former Trader On The Struggle To Find A Job

Although all this high-end bathing -- not to mention an onboard sushi chef (who Larson says is "the best in Scandinavia") -- account for much of the boat's allure, the 40-year-old meditation enthusiast believes there's something a little more transcendental about the whole experience.

CNN: Sailing the Arctic in fishing boat turned luxury spa

The real advances will come at least a decade from now, when onboard computers will negotiate, from hundreds of kilometers away, the best way for two planes to avoid each other in a process similar to the digital handshake between two computers sharing data on a network.

FORBES: Technology