Originally Posted by 1257

Oh please....women/people of color have been major airline pilots for over 4 decades
To think otherwise you'd have to be living in a world watching Star Trek on a black and white TV under a rock under Norad...
(all the girls wanted to be Uhura.........50 years ago.....)

Regarding the money argument, isn't it interesting that financially challenged white men aren't being marketed assistance by Aviate?
This is blatant discrimination no matter how you want to twist it and it's disappointing that the once "discriminated" against are silent on it.

Someone famous was once asked how you end racism. He said stop identifying people/things by racial association.
But that takes away the potential power of identity politics, so that side will always try to exploit the potential advantage.

Sadly, from Kirby's angle, this may be nothing more than trying to market to the woke crowd for ticket sales.
Based on today's backlash, not sure that'll increase the load factors Kirbs.....