A Girl’s Day flight for JAL
Today was Hina-matsuri (also known as “Girl’s Day”), so Japan Airlines had a special flight staffed almost entirely by female employees:
30 of the 31 employees required to prepare and service the flight were women. The captain piloting the plain was a man, since JAL has yet to promote a woman to the rank of captain (but there is a possibility one may be promoted in a couple years).
JAL currently employs a total of 81 female maintenance workers and 4 female co-pilots. The female employees interviewed said that they wanted to show young girls that such careers were open to women.
Side note: According to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots, only about 4,000 of the world’s 80,000 commercial pilots are women. United Airlines has the most women pilots with 68 Captains, 401 First Officers and 44 Second Officers.
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