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I don't think money is the problem here. In Germany, Lufthansa, the largest airline and has the following model: the pilot program takes 24 months. Students hav
by ckuehne 16y ago
I don't think money is the problem here. In Germany, Lufthansa, the largest airline and has the following model: the pilot program takes 24 months. Students have to pay 60k Euro which the get pre-financed by Lufthansa interest free. The have to pay it back once they get a job at Lufthansa (entry salary 60k/year). If they don't get a Lufthansa job within 5 years they don't have to pay it back. So basically, there is very little financial risk and the job is very well paid. They even give a job guarantee after pregnancy.
Still the female pilot ratio is less than 5 percent.
- sh4na 16y agoIt's definitely something to do with the one of the points the article mentions: the fact that women don't even consider it as a career, unless someone introduces them to flying (relative, friend, whatever) at some point in life. It's an interesting thought, and I wonder how much of that also applies to women and technology, particularly CS and open source.
- jedsmith 16y agoDo pilots start that program with absolutely no experience, or do they have to have a license (private? ATP?) already? That's a hell of a deal, given the civilian path to flying for an airline in the States and the debt that rides along.
- ckuehne 16y agoNo prior experience required. Just German Abitur [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abitur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abitur
- bulte-rs 16y agoDo they still provide a job guarantee these days? The Dutch flying school stopped doing that quite a while a go; even the 'prestigious' KLM Flight Academy doesn't guarantee a job anymore; only an interview and grading (last time I checked, which was back in 2006/2007 when I started flightschool).