Does Emirates hire women pilots?

[ghostrider]

Cant seem to find any info on their website regarding this? Anyone know?

Yes Emirates does hire female pilots. In fact I was in the same interview with the first one who was hired. But more so than for males, preference will be given to married females due to local labour laws.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

I'm glad to see women at Emirates.

I think it's for 2 reasons.

1: The pilot hiring situation.

2: Dubai is trying to modernize, and having professional women working there is required if you want to be a 1st class global city.

My buddy just got hired there, and he is ecstatic.

cliff
ABQ
PS-I'd rather fly with a good female pilot than a crap male one. Same goes for PIC/SIC. I'd rather be an SIC with a great Captain, than a PIC with a crap SIC.

 

[astranaught]

Do they hire women in the Emirates.

Yes they do my roommate who is a woman was hired there three years ago .She still happens to be there ,she is quite happy and her family enjoys it.The benifits are excellent and the kids are afforded a Fist class education for superior to anything offered this side of the world.

 

[Capt Big Daddy]

I guess some of you would really flip out if you saw a African American female pilot. As long as she knows what she's doing, so what if the f/o is a she.

 

[CX880]

Kind of off topic but what is the atmosphere between pilots and FAs at Emirates and other airlines in the region. Are there strict separation rules on layovers, I know some Asian carriers have this.

 

[fareview]

Kind of off topic but what is the atmosphere between pilots and FAs at Emirates and other airlines in the region. Are there strict separation rules on layovers, I know some Asian carriers have this.

Au contraire

 

[yokuba]

Great. I gotta get married?!

Yes Emirates does hire female pilots. In fact I was in the same interview with the first one who was hired. But more so than for males, preference will be given to married females due to local labour laws.

So I should get married before I interview? That's worse than buying a type rating for an interview.

I don't have anything against marriage (though I do fly with a lot of divorced individuals), and I know that foreign companies in general prefer individuals with a stable home life. Is it possible to get hired and THEN get married?

What is life like in Dubai for expat women? Will I need a male escort just to go for a walk?

Thanks,

A chick pilot

 

[Beetle007]

What about a dike? or a homo? Do they hire those types? what about tranvestites?!

On the books, the pentalty for the act of being gay is death. I don't think they have carried out this penalty for a long time.

 

[ohoh]

do you guys read the news - that whole area is messed up!

woman is sudan - imprisoned and probably more for naming a teddy - mohammad. (not a good idea i thought anyway)

woman in saudi-arabia - being flogged 70 lashes for reporting a rape because she was with a non-married/relative male - and increased to 200 because she reported the judgement to the media.

messed up!

 

[typhoonpilot]

Good grief :erm:

When I came over to Dubai there was a sniper loose in Washington D.C. How many people did those two guys kill? People were asking me if I felt safe in Dubai . "Uh, safer than D.C. was my answer"

Media hysterics aside, Dubai is a very safe place to live. It is night and day different from both Sudan and Saudi Arabia.


Typhoonpilot

 

[tyuwerty]

woman in saudi-arabia - being flogged 70 lashes for reporting a rape because she was with a non-married/relative male - and increased to 200 because she reported the judgement to the media.

The case is getting press almost everyday in the Arab News (Saudi Arabia's Newspaper). As disturbing as the case is, I think that it has outraged a lot of the local population as well as the rest of the world.

Unfortunately, it takes disgusting cases like this to help a country develop. There are plenty of examples from the southern states that led to dramatic changes to an ingrained culture.

Change does not happen over night and it doesn't happen without growing pains. Seeing it reported so freely in the local press is actually a step in the right direction.

 

[ohoh]

There are plenty of examples from the southern states that led to dramatic changes to an ingrained culture.

yes..but you don't have to be complicit in it.

using your analogy, para-phrasing MLK - the outrage regarding the inequities in this country is not the actions of the few but the silence and complicity of the majority.

you can choose to ignore what a foreign society is doing - especially when it doesn't effect you adversely - but i choose not to go along.

 

[tyuwerty]

yes..but you don't have to be complicit in it.

using your analogy, para-phrasing MLK - the outrage regarding the inequities in this country is not the actions of the few but the silence and complicity of the majority.

you can choose to ignore what a foreign society is doing - especially when it doesn't effect you adversely - but i choose not to go along.

EXACTLTY!! That is my point. The "silence and complicity of the majority" in Saudi Arabia is what allows this to happen. With the world expressing outrage at these issues it shames them to make changes in the future.

The judgement against this poor girl (who was raped 14 times by 7 different men, the men also raped the man who was with her) was enacted by a few judges. The general population in Saudi Arabia is finally expressing outrage along with the rest of the world.

 

[ohoh]

you can only bring the horse to the water trough.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

I love that saying:

"You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him think."

cliff
INT