how comes there are no women commercial airline pilots?
This is something that i have been wanting to know for a long time and that is how comes there are no women commerical airline pilots.
I have done alot of travelling and have taken dozens of flights and on every single one of those flights both the pilots have been men.
After all women are equal to men and there isn’t anything that they can’t do that men can do.
There are many women which have skilled jobs such as doctors lawyers engineers physicists etc and there are women serving in the armed forces such as the military buy drugs on line and navy and even the airfocre and there are women police officers women paramedics and women fire officers.
Those are all skilled jobs but for some reason there are no women working as commercial airline pilots, there have been women pilots i know but none of them have ever worked for a commercial airline.
So why is this ?
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They’re are…they hide them because women drivers make men nervous.
well there are a few, but it’s rare because the military trains mostly men, and learning to be a pilot is expensive – you have to have lots of time in airplanes which is expensive and no one can usually afford it on their own so it’s mostly military training. which is mostly men because the majority of pilots the military trains are men. basically it’s a financial issue because the military still discriminates in combat-related jobs. almost no one can pay for their own training. so it leaves women out. The other jobs you mention the training isn’t as expensive. Flying planes is very expensive.
What you need to do, is get your information from a reliable source, not just from personal observation. If you realize that at any given time in the US, there are over 2,000 aircraft in the air, all hours of the day and night, and you might have personally observed one or two in a given day, you knowledge base is severely limited.
Of course there are women pilots. Contact any airline in the industry, even the ones that you normally fly on and just ask them for the number of female pilots. Some places, might actually have them listed as a selling point.
You are mistaken there are quite a few. Granted it’s a newer development say within the last 20 years or so but female airline pilots do exist.
One reason that there are fewer may have to do with the fact that males are drawn to “big iron” more than women, i.e. cars, trains, planes, etc.
Calm down, they’ll get there.
Just because you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
You’re wrong. There are women pilots.
Yes, the overwhelming majority of commercial airline pilots are men, but a few women are now entering what is a very
competitive profession.
The British Women Pilots’ Association was formed in 1955 in order to help women participate in aviation.
The “Ninety Nines” are licensed women pilots who have come together for the mutual support and the advancement of women in aviation.
I have flown on several commercial flights that had female pilots. Never had any problem getting on a flight with one.
A woman cannot drive a car!! You want them to be in control of JETS that have hundreds of people on them?????
U need help my friend
I just got off a NWA flight where both pilot and co-pilot were female pilots. Seniority does limit newer pilots from applying to the bigger and better aircraft…but there are female pilots even there
there are many women pilots out there. Some are in a bigger rank than men. I have seen women captains, co-pilots, flight engineers. Well, they might be an airline transport pilot not a commercial pilot.
THERE ARE WOMEN AIRLINE PILOTS! I AM ONE.
In fact, I have flown many times as part of an ALL FEMALE cockpit crew!
There just aren’t that many of us….yet
Why not?
Because generally pilot careers are not encouraged by society and schools as a job to which girls might aspire. Just look at kids clothing- the airplane decor is always on the boys outfits! Plus, in the past airlines recruited pilots from mostly the military. Now that 65% of new hires are from a civilian background, you will see the numbers of women increase (they already are)
Women Pilot Statistics*:
Of 120,614 Commercial pilots in the United States, only 7,315 or 6.06% are women.
Of 141,992 Airline Transport Pilots only 5,008 or 3.53% are women.
*you can be hired at an airline with only a commercial certificate but must have an ATP to become a captain.
While the Ninety-Nines (mentioned above) is an organization for women pilots, most members are not with the airlines but general aviation pilots. The International Society of Women Airline Pilots, aka “ISA+21″, is an association just for licensed women airline pilots-
Help us increase our numbers and encourage a young girl to become a pilot!
I assure you there are. i personally know two Delta Capt.’s,
One gal that flies w/ Soutnwest, and one that flies a 7xx for UPS.
There are lots of women pilots. In fact, I happened to be on a USAIR (now USAIRWAYS) flight a number of years back when they announced that it was the first all woman flight crew…(was probably a DC9/MD80 crew) in the company history. Just came back on a Northwest flight to CLT that had a woman in the left seat.
The first in the countrywhere I live qualified in the early ’80s
lol just because u havent seen them doesnt mean they dont have them.
There are women. I know there are a few women flying Boeings around where I am. It is just that only a small percentage are female at this point in time, and the chances of getting a male flight crew is significantly higher.
As a flight attendant, I have worked with a number of female captains and first officers. As someone else said, this is a skill that used to be mainly acquired in the military – thus there were fewer females out there on commercial liners. I suspect the numbers will start to rise significantly over the next couple of decades. Are you old enough to remember when all bus drivers were male? Now, it seems the women outnumber the men. My personal opinion is that women (generally speaking) are more meticulous and intuitive than most men, and make excellent pilots.
There are female commercial pilots. My cousin is one, and she has been a captain for many years and a co-pilot before that. She flew charter prior to joining a major airline. She pilots the big jets on coast-to-coast flights. She did not receive her training in the military nor is she a newcomer to the industry. In fact, she is in her mid-fifties, so she has been a commercial pilot for quite sometime.
Think about it….are there not things you know to exist that you have never seen before? The Great Wall of China, perhaps or a polar bear in the wild?
Women will never be equal as men in some professions. But men can be better than women in almost all profession, even in the kitchen. Most of the best chef in the world are male.
Women will never be a better soldier and fight in a war, fireman or policeman to save life which require stronger strength, higher level of stress tolerant and aggressiveness. Even in business that requires innovation, vision and creativity men are better equip due to natural ability. See the top 20 entrepreneurs in the world, all are men.
But women tend to suited to be manager, researcher or numbering work that requires attention to detail and diligent management. But not in creating something out of nothing, since when did you see a female construction worker/builder etc? desk job architect maybe.
This is not discrimination but scientific proof, testosterone and the way brain function and human ancestry genetic formulation is embedded. Women should always be given even opportunity as men in all profession in a democratic society, but in the end of the day, nature dictates everything.
If I am flying and I am hearing a female pilot announcing, that will make me freaking nervous. I believe this will be the same for the general population.