Youngest female commercial airliner captain for a well known airline

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So basically this pilot (age 26) has become the worlds first, youngest female commercial airline captain for a well known airline! She works for EasyJet.

Here the story

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Surely there are younger than this. Look up Susi Air.

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I’ve seen a documentary about this, they said that the youngest pilot of the world is only 19 y.o and he work with Ryanair

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hmmm think you got yourself confused there quote from the guardian “British woman, 26, becomes one of world’s youngest airline captains”

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But check the title

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Your actually wrong @British-Airways what they said is she is the youngest female captain not the youngest captain

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Quote from BBC news “Her employer Easyjet believes the 26-year-old is the world’s youngest ever commercial airline captain.”

In other words they are trying to hype it up

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Heres the actual youngest airline pilot

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I heard that Virgin Atlantic had a 28 year old captain a few years back and thought wow, good on him.

But getting your command at 26 is a massive accomplishment - well done to her.

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Interesting. She’s only been with EasyJet for 5 years and now she’s a captain? I wonder how promotions are based there…seems like it would take much longer on a seniority based system.

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This topic is abou the youngest captain

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I know thats why I explained

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Ryanair were promoting FOs to captain within 4 years when my friend got his command upgrade a few years back.

Come to think of it he wasn’t much older than 26 at the time.

Anyhow a lot of these young captains manage it by getting into a flight college, such as Oxford at about 19, get an airliner job about 20 - 21 and if the airline is rapidly exapanding the opportunities are there. Plus working their ass off etc.

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I’d rather be a senior FO than a junior CP.

Better chance to bid on routes.

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Guys I got it wrong! Youngest FEMALE commercial airline CAPTAIN!

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I got it right 😜

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