The Centre for Aviation reports an increase in the percentage of women pilots.

CAPA article, entitled “Women airline pilots: a tiny percentage, and only growing slowly, was published on August 7th.

Key take-aways from the article inlclude:

• 7% of all US pilot certificates are held by women
• 4.4% of US airline pilots are women
• The US big three airlines employ the highest number of women pilots
• EasyJet has a target that 20% of its new entrant co-pilots will be women by 2020, having achieved its original target of 12% in 2016, a year ahead of schedule.

 

Click here for the full article, complete with informative graphs.