Just using this comment as an example... the indignation from some seems to suggest that we ("we" as in the historically typical airline pilot race/gender) are so accustomed to the ~90% white male nature of this industry that we can't look at something much closer to actual demographics without some feeling of injustice. The program has been given more exposure and advertising than anything pilot training related I've ever seen - articles in WSJ and mentions on the major news networks to name a few. It's casting the biggest of nets and doesn't require all of the typical connections to the industry that have historically shown many of us paths to the profession and the opportunity to pursue them.

I'd guess there are going to be various other percentage breakdowns in future classes but as hummingbear mentioned, a straight breakdown of a class in line with the demographics would be 30% white male. That's literally it. 30%. It seems this first class was far closer to that mark than a snapshot of literally every single newhire class ever in the history of US commercial aviation.

But hey, get angry.