Men should empower women in aviation: IATA diversity award winner
Fadimatou Noutchemo Simo, founder and president of the Young African Aviation Professional Association (YAAPA) earned the first-ever High Fl... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Gender
Beth Taylor leads from the front to give voice to ATPCO hidden figures
Once known mostly for being an airfare clearinghouse, airline-owned ATPCO is enjoying a new level of prominence in the industry since it acq... Continue Reading
Press Release: Travelport places an “X” for non-binary gender travelers
Travelport will be ready to implement a new booking code for non-binary gender airline passengers when it goes live on 1 June. The new code ... Continue Reading
Catherine Buchanan: Balancing motherhood and a VVIP aviation career
Catherine Buchanan is chief commercial officer at Middle East of VVIP jet charter specialist Vertis Aviation. She also has a private pilot l... Continue Reading
Brussels Airlines CEO Christina Foerster to women: Go For It
Christina Foerster, the CEO of Brussels Airlines, credits her success with lessons learned from her parents while growing up in the Canary I... Continue Reading
Air France commits to further improving gender diversity and equality
Air France has a long-standing commitment to gender diversity and professional equality between men and women. But while the carrier is one ... Continue Reading
India’s airlines lead the way on female pilot recruitment
Indian airlines have some of the highest percentages of female pilots in the world, aided by generous maternity benefits which some employee... Continue Reading
WILL Rise: How UTC is preparing women for leadership
On 16 January, UTC subsidiaries Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney hosted the inaugural Women In Line Leadership (WILL Rise) Conferen... 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
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
Annihilation takes sci-fi to infinity and beyond
Fans of filmmaker Alex Garland’s sexy, robot noir masterpiece Ex Machina must have surely rejoiced when news broke in 2016 that Garland’s ne... Continue Reading
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