3% of airline pilots women

Wasn’t Aeroflot a female pilot pioneer in the sixties? I seem to remember reading somewhere that while female pilots as a whole were a rarity at the time, they were common in the Soviet Union.

As for present figures, I suspect that there are quite a few more female pilots than some people imagine. I read about one female captain in a BA flight magazine once, so there’s one and wasn’t the first BA B747-400 to land at Terminal 5 captained by a woman? There’s two, assuming they aren’t the same captain.

I hear a lot of females on the radio these days down here in Africa.

Well out of the global 450 that are captains there are about 10 in my airline. I agree with Alan, I think the figures are rather dated.

Even more tellingly, how many I wonder, are Irish or black or lesbians ? Or, all three !

Quotas. That’s the answer.

I wonder where they got the information that Yvonne Pope Sintes was the first female
civil airline captain ?

You can usually see into the cockpit window pre-flight as you walk down the air bridge, or at the end when one of the two comes out of the cockpit to say thank you to the passengers along with the purser as you disembark.

Then again, how often do you see the captain or first officer ?
Someone may say at the beginning of the flight who is sitting up front, but I find most of the announcements unintelligible.

You certainly hear a lot of female aircrew talking to ATC, so I would guess those figures are a little out of date.