A second look at the Queen in her golden years
Full disclosure: I have a very personal reason for loving the 747 ‘Queen of the Skies’. She took her first flight on the very same day that ... Continue Reading
Lean into Aviation
Cathay Pacific’s Vivian Lo exemplifies benefits of curious generalist
Across Vivian Lo’s wide-ranging career within Cathay Pacific, the airline’s current general manager customer experience & design has app... Continue Reading
Solo at 16: Ellie Carter does the hard work for a flying career
Ellie Carter is a pilot, newly qualified at 16 years old. She’s still at school, studying hard for exams which she knows are the next step t... Continue Reading
ABM aviation industry group president Alex Marren leads by example
Alex Marren, SVP and president, aviation industry group, at ABM Industries was the first person in her large, extended Greek-American family... Continue Reading
SmartSky CCO Nancy Walker talks engineering and integrity
With NASA, Thales and Leonardo DRS already on her CV, Nancy Walker this year accepted the chief commercial officer position at inflight conn... Continue Reading
How two key Finnair programs use diversity to drive results
Airlines are global companies, and perhaps more than any other business have the opportunity to learn from the diversity of their staff memb... Continue Reading
Sabre’s head of NDC on STEM, #MeToo and the value of sticky notes
Kathy Morgan, vice president and Head of NDC at Sabre Corporation is helping airlines manage one of the most challenging IT programs in rece... Continue Reading
Women in Plastics make their mark in male dominated industry
With single-use plastics accumulating in oceans and on beaches, it’s easy to see why the messaging around plastic in general isn’t a wholly ... Continue Reading
Immfly’s Maria Cardenal on big leaps in innovation and representation
Maria Cardenal started her career in aviation in 2007 as head of ancillary revenue and product development at Clickair, and spent nearly nin... Continue Reading
Amadeus SVP airlines Julia Sattel on encouraging women to be fearless
Julia Sattel, senior vice president airlines at Amadeus IT Group does not fit in a cube, and she likes it that way. She has worked at Amadeu... Continue Reading
Pratt & Whitney VP Mary Anne Cannon sees value in men who mentor
Mary Anne Cannon’s introduction to machinery came from her dad, Tom Cannon. He was an engineer with the merchant marines and worked at sea s... Continue Reading
Project Mars winners shoot for the stars
Mankind has been dreaming about traveling to Mars since long before H.G. Wells and Ray Bradbury first put pen to paper, but with manned spac... Continue Reading
Mamava’s 10 best airports for breastfeeding moms in the United States
As part of their continuing efforts to help transform the culture of breastfeeding, the lactation pod pioneers at Mamava last week released ... Continue Reading
Women on a mission to encourage girls to join aviation’s next gen
When it comes to role models, the non-profit association Women in Aviation International has 13,000 of them, from aviation insurance executi... Continue Reading
Recaro’s lean boss Esther Smart talks transparency and no blame culture
Five years into the process of transforming seatmaker Recaro into a lean organisation — one that works along the principles evolving over de... Continue Reading
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