United Airlines plans to diversify its pool of pilots Al Jazeera English © United Airlines said currently about 7 percent of its pilots are women and 13 percent are people of . United Airlines said currently about 7 percent of its pilots are women and 13 percent are people of colour [File: Jeff Chiu/AP]
United Airlines says it will train 5,000 pilots this decade, including taking on applicants with no flying experience, and plans for half of them to be women or people of colour.
United will borrow an approach used elsewhere, notably at Germany’s Lufthansa, by taking people at the beginning of their flying careers and training them at its own academy, which it bought last year. United will continue to draw pilots from traditional sources such as the military, however.
United seeks to build its own diverse pipeline of pilots
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