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Vueling S.A. (/ ˈ v w ɛ. l ɪ ŋ /, VWE-ling) is a Spanish low-cost airline based at Viladecans in Greater Barcelona with operating bases at Barcelona–El Prat Airport (main); Paris-Orly Airport in Paris, France; Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy (secondary).
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Jo Claire Welch (1939-2018) Believed to be the first US woman hired as a commercial co-pilot, beginning 1969, for domestic commuter airline, Air East, with a flight from Houston to Austin Fay Gillis Wells (1908–2002), founder member of the Ninety-Nines and its first secretary; [ 77 ] one of the earliest female members of the Caterpillar Club ...
In 2019 Álex Cruz de Llano oversaw the successful beginning of a UK air service to Pakistan, making it the first Western airline in the country for ten years. [ 7 ] On the environmental impact of aviation , he said in August 2019 that British Airways and its competitors had to start "thinking about flying in different ways".
The first African American woman to fly for a commercial airline in the United States is Jill Brown-Hiltz when she joins Texas International Airlines as a pilot. [30] The International Social Affiliation of Women Airline Pilots (later named the International Society of Women Airline Pilots or ISA) is formed as a social and professional ...
Vueling Airbus A320-200. On 8 November 2012, IAG made a cash tender offer to buy Vueling, a Spanish low-cost airline based in Barcelona. The offer was €7 per ordinary share of Vueling, with the total cost of acquisition anticipated to be €113m. It was funded from internal IAG resources.
Vesna Vulović was born in Belgrade on 3 January 1950. [2] [3] Her father was a businessman and her mother was a fitness instructor. [3]Driven by her love of the Beatles, Vulović travelled to the United Kingdom after completing her first year of university, hoping to improve her English language skills.
She was part of the crew featured in a BBC documentary ‘Jet Jockeys’, following a flight from Heathrow to Bangkok & Sydney. Two other female pilots also joined BA around this time and flew smaller airliners. Within a year, sixty of the airline's three thousand pilots were female. She became a British Airways Captain in 1996 and retired in 2016.