Originally Posted by
Heathrow09L
For goodness sake, every application I have seen by airlines have been available and open to applicants who meet the requirements at that time, in no way has it ever said “Females cannot apply”.
Male and female have all been eligible, so I really don’t see the song and dance about women, they are not hard done by, they can apply just like everyone else, nobody is more special than the other.
This one
The scholarship is open for female applicants to be trained at FTEJerez as part of the Thomas Cook Airlines Mentored Cadet Pilot Training Programme. Each year for the next five years, one scholarship of 30,000 euros will be awarded to a successful applicant to be applied towards her training costs at FTEJerez.
... quite clearly implies that "Males cannot apply"!
Any influence in this field should be by parents encouraging their offspring of both genders that they should aim for what they want. From then on they are on equal footing and that is genuine 'gender equality'. Airlines do not limit pilot recruiting to one gender. If there are less woman pilots then it must be a sign that less women want to be pilots. No 'social tinkering' can alter that. But now in the name of some bollocks 'political correctness' you are getting airlines handing out a 30.000 euro 'bung' to a woman solely because she is a woman.