More nursing rooms for moms arrive at US airports
While most all airports now have baby diaper changing tables in the restrooms – including in some men’s rooms – appropriate spaces where nur... Continue Reading
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Obama signs bill reinstating Arlington burial for women WWII pilots
President Barack Obama has signed the Women Airforce Service Pilot Arlington Inurnment Restoration Act after it passed unanimously in the US... Continue Reading
Fifth grade USO-style girl group HOPE takes flight at B-17 tour stop
Founded in 1941 by Mary Ingraham at the request of then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United Service Organization’s (USO) missi... Continue Reading
Etihad VP of guest services Linda Celestino talks #PaxEx, leaning in
Linda Celestino was named Etihad’s vice president of guest services in February 2015. In her job, she oversees 6,000 cabin crew at a carrier... Continue Reading
Breastfeeding pilots file discrimination charges
Four women pilots at Denver-based ultra-low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines on 10 May filed discrimination charges with the Equal Employment ... Continue Reading
OPINION: End false alarms from prejudiced flyers scared of brown passengers
This outbreak of airlines allowing prejudiced passengers to decide that a fellow traveller is too brown, or too Muslim, or — in the latest e... Continue Reading
Anne-Sissel Skånvik tells the story for Norwegian
Updated to include additional comment from Norwegian Sometimes the familiar road you travel in life takes a turn and you wind up in pleasant... Continue Reading
SEKISUI exec navigates path between engineering and marketing
For engineers, and the teams who manage, market and deliver their products, technical competence is a must. But for many of those senior sta... Continue Reading
Gogo test pilot Nadia Kountoures spans oceans with her 737
As a nine-year-old Nadia Kountoures caught the aviation bug at the Chicago Air and Water airshow, even though she doesn’t come from an aviat... Continue Reading
In living her truth, pilot Kelly Lepley breaks down boundaries
“I have wanted to fly since I was 18 months old,” pilot Kelly Lepley tells Runway Girl Network from her latest layover in Hong Kong. “It sta... Continue Reading
India reevaluates why it’s keeping pregnant pilots grounded
NEW DELHI: A few years ago a passenger on an Indian budget carrier caused an uproar on learning that the captain was a woman. “I don’t... Continue Reading
Time to right the wrong and allow WASPs to be interred at Arlington
“This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possib... Continue Reading
Emirates seeks women pilots at Women in Aviation Conference
With women pilots and all-women flight crews making headlines at International Women’s Day events around the globe on Tuesday it was e... Continue Reading
All-women flights can’t disguise persistent gender gap on flight deck
On a recent flight from Frankfurt to New York, Captain Beatrice Beyer and First officer Diana Busch worked together side by side in the cock... Continue Reading
Lufthansa highlights need for gender parity on Women’s Day
In 2011, the Lufthansa Group set itself the goal of increasing the percentage of women in management positions by 30% by 2020. Since then, o... Continue Reading
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