Female Airline pilots

[Robert5988]

A thread prompted by Julie's(Mach 2) contribution in the 'Free upgrades' thread.

I had also been reading some information about this subject.

In 2002 there were:

Total number of U.S. airline pilots – More than 30,000

Total number of female U.S. airline pilots – Approximately 3,345

Total number of female U.S. airline captains – Approximately 740

So roughly 10% then and probably the ratio has not decreased since 2002.

As far as I can recall, in the hundreds of flights I have made, I have never had a female as the Captain and only twice a female first officer - once on a AA internal flight and the other on a RAF flight.

[owen3]

My neice is hoping to train to be a pilot.
Barbara

[chrizzy100]

They have a few lady Captains on Jet Blue...

[steph_goodrum]

We've twice had a female Captain on our flights with Virgin home from Orlando.

[E. Cosgrove]

Did anyone ever hear Jim Davidson on the subject of female pilots?[msnembarrased][msnembarrased][msnembarrased][msnembarrased]

[ShirleyD]

Oh Liz, I bet it was naughty [msnwink]
I have had a couple of female pilots on flights, just remember we women can do more than one thing at a time, so all those buttons are no problem [msntongue][msnwink]

Jenny Fray..... on 10th May 1994 she became the FIRST woman Captain with British Airways in its 3,200 strong crew. Her first command was on a BA Manchester to Jersey flight and passengers cheered when a female voice said "This is your captain speaking"

If I had my time again itts what I would do[msnwink]

We had a female F/O on Concorde and I flew with quite a few female pilots on the 737/757 as far back as the early 1990's[msnsmile]

[ALR]

We've flown with a female pilot before. We enjoyed it.

ALR

[Katys Grandad]

No reason why there shouldn't be a lot more female pilots - you don't have to parallel park a jumbo.[msnwink]

(Please be gentle - somebody had to be the first to say it!!)

[Kazzie]

Your comments dont make sense to me as most women I know can parallel park better than any man I know[msnwink]

Karen

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Katys Grandad
No reason why there shouldn't be a lot more female pilots - you don't have to parallel park a jumbo.[msnwink]

(Please be gentle - somebody had to be the first to say it!!)
[/quote]