Pakistan start inducting first female fighter pilots

[newscaster]

More power to women, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4533367.stm

[airmemphis]

What other Middle Eastern airlines have female pilots? I know Egyptair have 82.

[threepwood]

Since when did Egypt Air have female pilots? I never new that! I wonder how many pilots they have anyway? airmemphis, perhaps you know?

threepwood

[airmemphis]

threepwood, yes they've had women pilots since the early 90s. They currently have 82 female pilots (which I wrote in my first post:ok: ) trained and certified on the entire MS fleet.

[Fox3snapshot]

Qatari and Yemeni Airlines have female pilots too. A local Dash 8 operation here, Dhabi Aviation, has ladies flying with them. In fact one of the girls at Yemeni foiled a hijack a few years ago.

[puff m'call]

Rumour control has it that EK are about to employ their first female pilot. That will be fun !!!!!! ;)

[recceguy]

That thread started with female student fighter pilots....
not much to do with airline stories. As it's much easier to become an airline pilot than a fighter jock, so it should be easier for airlines to integrate women than for air forces to do the same ?

When I was in Saudi Arabia, I watched some years ago a young lady flying USAF F15, just before we took off to Iraq - in fact no problem with me, I just thought "should you bail out above one those wonderful countries you have been bombing the minutes before, run like hell !! (or really trust the CSAR helos...)

[MAXMEDLO]

Air Memph,

Check your PM's

[threepwood]

Any religous problems occured? Any social issues?