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SWISS operates all-female crew flights for International Women's Day

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SWISS operates all-female crew flights for International Women's Day
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Jens Fehlinger Chief Executive Officer | Swiss International Air Lines

SWISS is setting an example of diversity and equal opportunities within the aviation sector to mark this year’s International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8. The day’s SWISS services from Zurich to Gothenburg and back will have an all-female cockpit and cabin crew providing their passengers with a safe and enjoyable flight. On the ground, too, SWISS’s partner companies will be intentionally assigning female personnel to handle the flights concerned.

Travelers on SWISS’s LX 1226 and LX 1227 services between Zurich and Gothenburg tomorrow are in for a slight surprise: to mark this year’s International Women’s Day, the services will have an all-female crew in both the cockpit and the cabin ensuring that their guests enjoy a safe and pleasant flight.

On the ground, too, SWISS’s industry partners in Zurich and Gothenburg will be assigning female staff as much as possible to handle the flights concerned – loading and unloading the aircraft, for instance, or driving the pushback tractor.

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In rostering such an unusual crew, Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is helping to mark this year’s International Women’s Day by raising the visibility of women within the aviation sector. The company is hoping, too, to encourage more women to consider a career in the air transport field.

Women presently make up just over five percent of SWISS’s cockpit crew corps. The proportion is rising though: 13 percent of students currently undergoing their pilot training are female. At SWISS’s TechOps division, women presently account for just under eight percent of the workforce. But in this traditionally male preserve too, numbers of female employees are growing.

SWISS is taking active steps to promote these trends and persuade even more women to seek an aviation career. Its actions include conducting events aimed specifically at a female audience at which women pilots will present and explain their profession and working lives to interested attendees and answer their questions.

In operating these all-female-crew flights on International Women’s Day, SWISS... said Head of Human Resources Christina Trelle: “We’re convinced at our company that diversity is vital to success promotes innovation benefits team dynamics Women have firm place aviation every aspect thereof And by rostering special flight rotation shining light role play showing paths cockpits technical services world ground handling partners open Our aim not just encourage more women join industry create general working environment talent passion performance count whichever gender may ”

SWISS will report on Saturday’s special flights with its all-female crew via its social media channels. After arrival from Gothenburg back in Zurich photos available Newsroom. ###

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