Wanted – more women pilots

A call for more female pilots in the aviation industry came last week from the travel platform FromAtoB after research showed while aviation was growing at 5%-10% a year, the number of women entering the profession remains stagnant.

Among European airlines, it said Flybe and Luxair came at the top, each having 10% of women piloting their aircraft. Among global carriers, 11.6% of Australian regional carrier QantasLink’s pilots are women, while the figure for Hawaiian Air is 9.6%.

FromAtoB said these “unimpressive” figures were, however, almost twice the global average of just 5.2%, according to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). Of nearly 4,200 pilots at Aeroflot, just 58, or 1.4%, were women, while the Emirates figure was 2.3%.

The research took the figures from ALPA and the International Society of Women Airline Pilots (ISWAP) annual reports. This was then confirmed or corrected by FromAtoB email or telephone correspondence.

Figures for easyJet, Emirates, Flybe, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Aeroflot were only visible in the ALPA report and were not commented on by the company. A large British airline corrected the researched value, but asked FromAtoB not to include it in the analysis.

www.fromatob.com/airlines-and-female-pilots

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