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If that’s true, then why aren’t their numbers higher? Originally Posted by Cyio
I heard point blank from one of this companies top 5 people that you won't see many women pilots here because AA scoops them all up. This was in front of about 20 people. It absolutely happens and anyone telling you otherwise is lying to themselves.
5.2% of airline pilots in the US are female, but at AA it is 4.8%, which is fairly in line with, if not very slightly below, the average.
If you look at the WOs, Piedmont and PSA are right in line at 4.8%, and Envoy lags at 3.5%, the lowest percentage of any US regional.
The US Navy has 7% female pilots, for example, and since the military is the largest source of AA pilots outside of the WOs, if they were truly hiring “all of the women”, these numbers should be higher.