Globally, just 5.18% of commercial pilots are women, according to the Air Line Pilots Association International trade union. Indian airlines employ the highest proportion of female pilots at 12.4%.

I flew my last large commercial airplane back from Lisbon ... the first Black female pilot in the US Air Force and a captain ...

Love initially recruited 27 highly-experienced women pilots between the ages of 21 and 35 with high school diplomas, a commercial pilot’s license, and a minimum of 500 hours of flight time.

Which airline has the most female pilots? That number will need to increase to meet the industry's expected growth, says Robin Glover-Faure, president of L3 Commercial Training Solutions ...

Nationwide's Christopher Rainbow takes a flight with Britain's first ever female commercial airline pilot, Yvonne Pope Sintes. From the BBC Archive.

One of the first female commercial airline pilots was a Scot - yet few will have even heard of aviation pioneer Winnie Drinkwater. In 1930, at age 17, Winnie Drinkwater started taking flying lessons.

The latest statistics show that airlines such as IndiGo, Air India, and SpiceJet employ a combined total of 1,767 women ...

Air India pilot Srishti Tuli died by suicide in Mumbai. Boyfriend Aditya Pandit faces abetment charges amid harassment ...