KENYA AIRWAYS CHOOSES ROUTE TO MOMBASA FOR TWO ALL LADY CREW FLIGHTS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
(Posted 08th March 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSfiGcqDoMw
March 08th will be celebrated by the ladies, and a growing number of men too around the world as the one day when they, the ladies are at the centre of the universe – International Women’s Day. Leading and at times not so leading corporate entities on that day regularly jump on the bandwagon to make gains, in public perception, in promoting their brand and in scoring brownie points and yet, on closer inspection, they often fail the litmus test when it comes to being an equal opportunity employer or rewarding the same work with the same pay.
Not so at Kenya Airways which for many years has not only been a committed equal opportunities employer but does give equal pay for equal work across the ranks and pay scales.
To celebrate the day will all-female crews, cockpit and cabin, first operate flights KQ 600/601 from Nairobi to Mombasa this morning, leaving at 06.00 am local time from Nairobi on an Embraer E190 aircraft. Later in the morning will flights KQ 604/605, also destined for Mombasa, depart from Nairobi at 09.30 and back.
The all female crew flights are the airline’s way to pay tribute to those women who aspired and succeeded in making a career in aviation, especially the lady pilots of the airline.
It is worth to mention here that Kenya Airways was in fact the first airline to check out a female African captain on the state of the art Boeing B787 Dreamliner, when Capt. Irene Koki Murungi moved from the B767 cockpit to the B787, making world aviation history at the time when she piloted the aircraft’s delivery flight from Seattle to Nairobi at the end of August last year.
I do also pay tribute to the many women, not just those in aviation but across the entire tourism and travel industry who made a career, succeeded and became role models for the girl child, who can now also aspire to fly, be it in an aircraft with Kenya Airways or soar in any other career.
Enjoy the short YouTube video featuring Capt. Irene Koki Murungi who has been with Kenya Airways for 20 years, starting to fly on the Fokker 50 before working her way up into the cockpit of the Boeing B787 Dreamliner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GZ8lE_BJCs
Congratulations to the women of the world on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2015.
