ASA's newest milestone

[Salukipilot4590]

-How is "the man" keeping anyone down when so few of these guys even want to fly in the first place?

-There are simply some things that are not all that "cool" to certain ethnic groups, and aviation is not nearly as "cool" as some other careers to most black folks.

Youre a f-king idiot...i'm done with this board.

 

[Freebrd]

The sheer chance of having an all female crew much less an all AA female crew (double minority) is almost an impossibility. .

hearing that this was 'arranged" by scheduling, it was black history month etc etc. Is it true that SB paid for teh capts lodging and approved her for additional sims? why wouldn't he do that for others???????????????????

 

[FORESTGUMP]

The sheer chance of having an all female crew much less an all AA female crew (double minority) is almost an impossibility.

Actually it happens all the time. The all female part. It's just not national news worthy because they're the wrong color.

Is it really that big a deal for people when someone of color is successful?
Do black people really think so little of themselves that doing something so "normal" is worthy of news?

 

[atlcrjdriver]

Actually it happens all the time. The all female part. It's just not national news worthy because they're the wrong color.

Is it really that big a deal for people when someone of color is successful?
Do black people really think so little of themselves that doing something so "normal" is worthy of news?

You are correct as I have seen all AA crews before as well as all female crews before and no they didn't recieve any notoriety. Thus your last statement is moot. I was speaking of the double minority part. Again, this made news as in the 107 years of aviation this is the first of any airline. They did and continue to do their jobs as professionals ... well done.

Also
Freebrd, don't believe everything you hear. Do you actually believe that skd would troll the rsv list trying to find these two and put them together. All this while checking everyones picture to ensure they were black and they would have to do this while complying w/ the contract and not give assign these trips out of order. I know contract violations happen all the time but this sounds far pretty fetched. The other "rumors" sound silly.

 

[COOPERVANE]

Ask Air Jamaica pilots about the significance of this.

 

[Silent Partner]

It's all good mon!

 

[Redtailer]

All I can say is WOW to the comments on here.

This is a milestone like it or not and it does mean a lot.

Let me make it simple. There are over 70,000 airline pilots in the US with over 28,000 commercial airline flights every day!

That equates to over 10,000,000 flights per year! It would not be a stretch to say in the past 20 years there have been over 100 million flights. Extend that back to the beginning of aviation and the number starts to approach half a billion flights!

So it took half a billion flights to get an all female african american crew to fly together and that is not worth mentioning?

 

[crj567]

All I can say is WOW to the comments on here.

This is a milestone like it or not and it does mean a lot.

Let me make it simple. There are over 70,000 airline pilots in the US with over 28,000 commercial airline flights every day!

That equates to over 10,000,000 flights per year! It would not be a stretch to say in the past 20 years there have been over 100 million flights. Extend that back to the beginning of aviation and the number starts to approach half a billion flights!

So it took half a billion flights to get an all female african american crew to fly together and that is not worth mentioning?

Still waiting on the all-female-all-lesbian-swedish bikini team....

-Now THAT would be a "milestone" I could get into.

 

[samballs]

Still waiting on the all-female-all-lesbian-swedish bikini team....

-Now THAT would be a "milestone" I could get into.

If they ain't black you will never know if it happened.

 

[Papa Woody]

Still waiting on the all-female-all-lesbian-swedish bikini team....

-Now THAT would be a "milestone" I could get into.

I have front-row seats at the "All-Girls Glass Cello Orchestra" concert!