Women Account for Fewer Than 5% of Airline CEOs Around the World
Photo Credit: Three of the nine women CEOs at airlines worldwide. From left to right: Carolyn McCall, Aireen Omar and Chris Browne. Flickr
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At the end of the day, airlines are customer-service companies and it will benefit their customers and operations to have leadership that better reflects who is flying today.
The number of women taking the reigns of large, small, legacy and low-cost carriers revealed that women account for fewer than 5 percent of all airline CEOs.
Only twelve out of the 248 airlines operating worldwide are currently led by women.
Of those, six women lead full-service airlines, four lead low-cost carriers, and two are at subsidiaries. The ten airlines are spread throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, but no North American airlines make the list.
Most of the women listed below are the first females to lead an airline in their country.
One hundred years after the first commercial flight the industry's most influential leaders fall short of reflecting half of the global traveler population.
Airlines With Female CEOs
Airline Name
CEO
Country
Type of Airline
Air Asia
Aireen Omar
Malaysia
LCC
Air Namibia
Theo Miriam Namases
Namibia
FSC
CityJet
Christine Ourmières
Ireland
Regional/Subs
