#PaxEx Podcast: How the A350 is setting a standard for inflight well-being
Welcome to Episode 33 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest for this episode is Cynthia Drescher, a professional travel journalist who is more th... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Women in Aviation
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
Researcher Sophia Yang walks the science/project line
Besides an impressive four patents and four publications to her name, architected materials research scientist Sophia Yang was a member of t... Continue Reading
Middle Eastern women pilots keep their eyes on the skies
Alia Twal, a first officer who flies for Royal Jordanian Airlines, is a trailblazer in her home country of Jordan. From an early age Twal fo... Continue Reading
Heroic flight attendant Neerja Bhanot inspires powerful new movie
MUMBAI: Today’s release of the film ‘Neerja’, produced by Fox Star India, had many audiences across the country choked with emotion an... Continue Reading
From Sydney to Doha, Fordyce-Wheeler helps airport design take off
San Francisco-based design firm Gensler has named Kirsten Fordyce-Wheeler as design director of its aviation practice. Before joining Gensle... Continue Reading
BA’s Abigail Comber finds her passion in customer service
There is one certainty for Abigail Comber, head of customer for British Airways, and it is this: passengers who fly business and first expec... Continue Reading
Boeing’s Rachelle Ornan-Stone: from Space Camp to Starliner
Dr Rachelle Ornan-Stone wanted to be an astronaut when she grew up. Instead, she’s the Regional Director of Cabin Experience and Revenue Ana... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: All-male APEX emerging tech panel needs women’s voices
With tech-savvy women worldwide making key travel decisions these days for themselves and their families and Nielsen reporting last fall tha... Continue Reading
Why Finnair rejected typecasting for safety VP position
When we think about diversity in the workplace, a few things spring to mind: ethnic or cultural diversity, opportunities for the disabled, g... Continue Reading
India chapter of Women in Aviation launches in New Delhi
NEW DELHI: In 1998 India released a stamp to celebrate woman in aviation, an important recognition for this ofttimes invisible force. Today,... Continue Reading
Planes, trains, Global Xpress, Honeywell’s Sidelinger leans in
From locomotives, to marine vessels to satellite communications in aerospace, Rebecca Sidelinger has run a variety of different product line... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Technik sees promising early results from equality work
Touring the expansive maintenance hangars that belong to Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg and Frankfurt this summer, Runway Girl Network kept an... Continue Reading
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