Gender pay gap data has underlined quite how rare a female pilot remains: at Munns’ employer 6% are women – a rate easyJet has doubled for new entrants – while Ryanair revealed just eight of its 554 UK-based pilots are women. “In the old days, there was any excuse to stop women doing professional jobs. Now, she says university tuition fees mean even the £110,000 pilot training costs look more appealing, with a fairly guaranteed job. They don’t know you – or probably even know you’re female until you turn up.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marnie Munns was very young when she chose her career as a pilot. And the traditional view of the pilot, living out of a suitcase – I do night stops very rarely.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2018 15:25 UTC