or start my own airline employing all those surplus female pilots - any/all suggestions welcome humorous ones preferable as I need a laugh.
The first thing that'll happen is an equal opportunities class action from lots of unemployed male pilots !
Assuming that you, say, set it up in the IOM where they don't care about equal opportunities, you'll still be stuck with male groundcrew. I doubt that there are enough women engineers in the UK to run a whole airliner!
G