The aviation industry is growing at a rate of 5 to 10 percent each year. But the number of women entering the profession remains stagnant.
To find out the proportion of women piloting flights, travel platform fromAtoB (www.fromAtoB.com) undertook research into some of the world’s biggest airlines.
A modest number
Among European airlines, the British airline Flybe and the Luxembourgish Luxair came at the top, with each having 10 percent of women piloting their fleets.
The percentage is hardly more impressive for global airlines. 11.6 percent of Australian regional carrier QantasLink’s pilots are women, while the figure is 9.6 percent for Hawaiian Air.
These figures are, however, almost twice the global average of just 5.2 percent, according to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots (ISWAP).
Among the nearly 4200 pilots working for Russian airliner Aeroflot, just 58 are women, or just 1.4 percent, while the number is not much higher for Emirates, at 2.3 percent.
About the study
The figures were taken from the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and International Society of Women Airline Pilots (ISWAP) annual reports. This was then confirmed or corrected by fromAtoB email or telephone correspondence.
The pilot shares of easyJet, Emirates, Flybe, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Aeroflot Russia were only visible in the ALPA report and were not commented on by the company. A large British airline corrected the researched value, but asked fromAtoB not to include it in the analysis.
