Kenya Airways launches first ever all-female flight deck crew… They are flying Boeing 787 Dreamliner (Photos)
Kenya Air last Sunday January 22nd marked 40 years since it began operations. The national carrier announced it would offer its customers up to 40 per cent discount in a move aimed at steering it back to profitability.
But discount wasn’t the only announcement Kenya Airways would be making, KQ also announced first ever all-female flight deck crew would be flying a Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to Nairobi.
Kenya Airways isn’t the first African airline to have an all-female flight deck crew; Air Zimbabwe was the very first.
Captains Chipo M. Matimba and Elizabeth Simbi Petros of Air Zimbabwe flew Boeing 737 from Harare to Victoria Falls in November 2015.
That same month 2015, KQ’s main rival, Ethiopian Airlines, made history as the first African airline to launch an all-women operated flight; from planning to ground service to the cockpit.
On November 18th, Ethiopia Airlines announced that for the first time in the company’s 70-year history, an all-female crew operated an intercontinental flight from Addis Ababa to Bangkok, Thailand.
