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April 6, 2021

'Diversifying the cockpit': UA recruiting 5K pilots; half will be women, people of color

Big thanks to trailblazer Ms. Harris: so many more pilots, surgeons, artists, politicians will get their jobs due to their gender and skin color. Not basketball players though.

The airline industry expects to recover from the pandemic in a couple of years and when it does, United plans to diversify the cockpit.

It launched a flight school called United Aviate Academy with the goal of training 5,000 pilots by 2030. Half of which will be women and people of color.

"I've had the pleasure of flying the Boeing 737, the Boeing 777 and now the Boeing 787 ", said United Airlines pilot Gabrielle Harding.

Harding said while growing up in Detroit she had access to programs that sparked an interest in flying but she says many minorities are just not exposed to aviation.

"The fact that United has decided to reach out and diversify the cockpit more is wonderful considering the cities in which United serves", said Harding. "They are cosmopolitan diverse urban cities".

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