Only about six percent of commercial pilots are women, but one airline program is working to change that.
"For every 100 male , there’s only six women — and there are even fewer women of color in that example," Delta’s VP and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer Keyra Lynn Johnson told TODAY correspondent Blayne Alexander. "So today’s flight gives us an opportunity to not just wait on the talent to arrive but actually to grow the talent that we need for the future.
"I want them to see that they can do it," she said of the participants."So they can say, 'OK, I want to be a pilot,' or 'Do I want to be a mechanic?'"Captain Cheri Rohlfing co-founded Delta's WING program. This flight took its special group of passengers to another place perfectly suited for those with a passion for STEM — all the way to Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. It marked the first-ever landing of a commercial flight at the NASA field center.NASA’s Artemis team is working to send the first woman to the moon, and Deputy Project Manager Jenny Lyons sees the future of that effort in the faces of the WING participants.
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