BALPA says gender or finances should not be a barrier to a flying career
The UK pilots’ association has said that the only thing that should matter for wannabe pilots is ability, not gender, background or financial situation. BALPA says that young girls shouldn’t let lack of visible representation put them off dreams of becoming a pilot, nevertheless the UK pilot population is 95% male, with only 608 women in the UK holding a flight crew licence. The pilots’ association said that with increasing training...
SkyDemon Flying Scholarship launched with Air League
The Air League has announce the launch of a 12-hour powered flying scholarship sponsored by SkyDemon. Under The Air League’s powered scholarship programme, this award will enable a young person to reach solo standard and enjoy the responsibility and achievement of solo flight. The scholar will be encouraged to undertake their training on a residential basis over the course of week at one of three approved training providers to ensure...
UK to Australia non-stop
Sleep might be exactly what passengers may be craving even more than normal when the first ever non-stop Europe to Australia scheduled flights commence in late March. Long the ‘holy grail’ of long distance airline travel, the Heathrow to Perth service will be flown by Qantas using B787-9s and will be a flight of approximately 17 hours airborne. That sounds like a lot to most of us (somewhere in the region of 14,500km), though...
easyJet joins forces with Girlguiding to engage more girls in aviation
The partnership is the first to be announced as part of Girlguiding’s biggest ever overhaul of badges and activities. As part of this new programme, easyJet is sponsoring a new Aviation badge for Brownies. To earn the badge, girls will challenge themselves to think of 40 things that fly and put their engineering skills to the test, creating their own aircraft experiments with different building materials, structures and launch...
A Virgin Sleeping Beauty awakes
No – we haven’t regressed to fairy tales (at least, not just yet), but rather a modern fable demonstrating the current buoyant state of the airline business. The Sleeping Beauty in question is an Airbus A340-600 belonging to Virgin Atlantic, named ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and registered, appropriately enough, G-VNAP. They’re not short of imagination at Virgin Atlantic, it’s one of the reasons they’re one of our favourite airlines [full...
