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Why airlines aim to train more women and people of color to become pilots

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Why airlines aim to train more women and people of color to become pilots

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Commercial airline pilots are overwhelmingly white and male. Amid a need for pilots, the industry is stepping up efforts to recruit more women and people of color to become pilots.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Airlines need more pilots. They face a shortage. And as they recruit more, they would like cockpit crews to be more diverse. Here's NPR's David Schaper.

DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE2: For airlines, the problem isn't just that they don't have enough pilots; it's who those pilots are and how they got there.

ALLISON MCKAY: Historically, they are white men, and they either came out of the military, or there was some family connection to aviation that got them into flying, and that has been the majority of the makeup3 for decades.

SCHAPER: That's Allison McKay, who heads the group Women in Aviation International. She says today only about 7% of airline pilots are women. Only about 1% are women of color. And not being exposed to people who look like you in certain professions can have a huge impact. As a little girl growing up in Jamaica, Ricki Foster never dreamed of becoming an airline pilot, and it still seemed far-fetched even after moving to the U.S. and working in the industry.

RICKI FOSTER: While I was working as a flight attendant, I saw Black men, not a single Black woman. I saw white women but not a single Black female pilot in 10 years.

SCHAPER: But the 38-year-old mother of two became friends with pilots who encouraged her to try to become one. And after Foster went up on a discovery flight, she was hooked.

FOSTER: And I was like, oh, my gosh, I love it. But I was like, oh, my gosh, I can't afford it (laughter). So I was like - you know, I was thinking to myself, I'm too old to start, like, trying to become a pilot. So - but I really love it, so it's just going to be an overpriced hobby.

SCHAPER: Going to flight school and building up the 1,500 flight hours needed to fly for an airline can take years and cost $100,000 or more, and the expense forced Foster to stop. But about a year ago, her friends told her that United Airlines was opening a new flight school called United Aviate Academy here in Goodyear, Ariz., outside of Phoenix4. United pays some of the hefty upfront costs and helps secure loans for student pilots by guaranteeing jobs to those who complete the program. Foster was one of 7,000 initial applicants5 and was accepted.

FOSTER: Pre-flight checklist complete, weight and balance within limits, emergency equipment's onboard.

SCHAPER: And now five days a week, Foster sits at the controls of this Cirrus SR-20 airplane next to flight instructor6 Aiden Zabiegalski firing up the single engine of this four-seat prop7 plane.

FOSTER: All right, we'll see.

AIDEN ZABIEGALSKI: We got no tie downs. We're all clear. So you can go ahead and start.

FOSTER: All right.

ZABIEGALSKI: Good luck.

FOSTER: Thank you.

(SOUNDBITE OF AIRPLANE COCKPIT AMBIENCE)

FOSTER: All right. She is ready to go.

SCHAPER: Ricki Foster seems at complete ease as she guides the plane down the taxiway and onto the runway and then takes off on this training flight. She's 1 of 30 student pilots at Aviate Academy's first class, 80% of whom are women or people of color. Another is 19-year-old Jimena Perez Arroyo8.

JIMENA PEREZ ARROYO: Aviation kind of had always been a dream of mine. It just did not seem like a possibility for being a woman, for being an immigrant, for being Latina. You know, it's just not something that I ever saw portrayed9.

SCHAPER: Arroyo was born in Mexico.

ARROYO: And for most of the people that I had grown up around or anything, like, airplanes were not just something you got into very often in the small town I grew up in. It was just, like, kind of what rich people did - you know? - quote-unquote.

SCHAPER: But after moving to California when she was 10, Arroyo got her first taste of air travel and loved it. Then she took an introduction to aviation class in high school, and she wanted to go to flight school, but...

ARROYO: Just looking at local flight schools, it's about almost 100k - almost 100k. So it's a lot of money. There's no federal aid for it, you know?

SCHAPER: With United helping10 defray the costs, Arroyo is now on track to be flying a regional airline jet by the time she's 22, and she could be a mainline United Airlines pilot just two or three years after that. Arroyo says the training can be nerve-wracking but also empowering.

ARROYO: And it also shows that, no matter your background, you're as capable, even if you're a woman, even if you did not grow up with all the same opportunities as other people around you that are doing this now. I think it just comes to show that it is a possibility, you know?

SCHAPER: Other airlines are stepping up efforts to knock down barriers to flight school and training while diversifying11 their pilot ranks. They're offering more scholarships to university aviation programs and flight schools, sometimes guaranteeing jobs to pilots who complete training. Delta12 Airlines is partnering with historically Black Hampton University, adding it to the airline's collegiate pilot career path program. And Alaska Airlines has teamed up with the nonprofit Sisters in the Sky to hire more Black female pilots. Efforts like these allow a student like Ricki Foster to make a dramatic midlife career shift. Though it's temporarily taking her away from her 17-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, she says it's an important example for them, especially her daughter.

FOSTER: Every day, I think about what it means because the fact that I'm making these strides and I'm doing this, she knows it is possible.

SCHAPER: United Airlines plans to have 500 students a year go through its Aviate flight school and is committed to ensuring that at least half of them are women or people of color. Already, more than 12,000 prospective13 pilots have applied14.

David Schaper NPR News, Goodyear, Ariz.

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n.抄本,誊本,副本,肄业证书
参考例句:
  • A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
  • They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。
2 byline sSXyQ     
n.署名;v.署名
参考例句:
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
3 makeup 4AXxO     
n.组织;性格;化装品
参考例句:
  • Those who failed the exam take a makeup exam.这次考试不及格的人必须参加补考。
  • Do you think her beauty could makeup for her stupidity?你认为她的美丽能弥补她的愚蠢吗?
4 phoenix 7Njxf     
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生
参考例句:
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
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申请人,求职人( applicant的名词复数 )
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  • There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
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6 instructor D6GxY     
n.指导者,教员,教练
参考例句:
  • The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
  • The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
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vt.支撑;n.支柱,支撑物;支持者,靠山
参考例句:
  • A worker put a prop against the wall of the tunnel to keep it from falling.一名工人用东西支撑住隧道壁好使它不会倒塌。
  • The government does not intend to prop up declining industries.政府无意扶持不景气的企业。
8 arroyo KN9yE     
n.干涸的河床,小河
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  • She continued along the path until she came to the arroyo.她沿着小路一直走到小河边。
  • They had a picnic by the arroyo.他们在干枯的河床边野餐过。
9 portrayed a75f5b1487928c9f7f165b2773c13036     
v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
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  • Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中,他始终把自己说成是受害者。
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n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
11 diversifying a1f291117de06530378940b8720bea5e     
v.使多样化,多样化( diversify的现在分词 );进入新的商业领域
参考例句:
  • Some publishers are now diversifying into software. 有些出版社目前正兼营软件。 来自辞典例句
  • Silverlit is diversifying into new markets, such as Russia and Eastern Europe. Silverlit正在使他们的市场变得多样化,开发新的市场如俄罗斯和东欧国家。 来自互联网
12 delta gxvxZ     
n.(流的)角洲
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  • He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
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13 prospective oR7xB     
adj.预期的,未来的,前瞻性的
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  • They have all these great activities for prospective freshmen.这会举办各种各样的活动来招待未来的新人。
14 applied Tz2zXA     
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
参考例句:
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
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