Thursday, 19th November 2015 will go down in history as the day Ethiopian Airlines operated its first ever all female crew flight.
The flight operating from Addis Ababa to Bangkok will be a historic flight aimed at empowering women on the eve of the Airline’s 70th Anniversary. From the ground operations to the flight crew, all will be women.
Hear is the airline’s CEO, Tewolde GebreMariam, statement on this epoch making event:
“Above all, this is an ample opportunity to inspire young African female students to believe in their dreams and embark to fill the skill gap for Aviation professionals.
Women are the continent’s greatest untapped resources, and hereby fully dedicated to ensure the increase number of women in decision making positions on top of key operational areas by consistently grooming and mentoring successor female employees for top managerial, technical and operational positions.
We invite the whole world to watch our all-female operated long haul flight to and from Bangkok.”
Here are some related tweets
Tonight the first 'All Woman Functioned Flight' of @flyethiopian will be taking off from ADD to #BKK. #StarAlliance pic.twitter.com/Pi8vdm5K8r
— Star Alliance (@staralliance) November 18, 2015
#Ethiopia/n Airlines Celebrates Women With First All-Female Operated Flight @FlyEthiopian https://t.co/nmpEU2Jzpw pic.twitter.com/rnKFo5s6ZZ
— Attorney Simret Zeru (@SimretZeru) November 17, 2015
Another gr8 role model! @flyethiopian's first all women functioned flight! pic.twitter.com/I5BX1LDdkP #PilotsNews #avgeeks #pilots #pilotlife
— CrewSAAM ✈️ (@CrewSAAM) November 17, 2015
Last week, an Air Zimbabwe flight between the national capital of Harare and beloved attraction Victoria Falls made aviation history by being the first-ever flight in Zimbabwe to have an all-female flight deck crew also.
