‘Go For It, You're Limitless’: All-Female Flight Crew At Denver International Airport Encourages Women To Join Aviation Industry

By Shawn Chitnis, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4) – United Airlines operated Flight 2392 from Denver to Kalispel, Montana on Thursday with an all-female flight team. The airline says the all-female flight celebrates the talented women who already work in those positions and how they can inspire another generation to join a traditionally male-dominated industry.

“The people that are doing the work behind the scenes, the women today, the dispatchers, the rampers, the mechanics, the flight attendants, the people who clean the cabin, the people who are catering the aircraft, they’re all women,” said United Captain M’Liss Ward, one of the two pilots in the cockpit for the flight.

Ward says she is among 20 black women who are pilots for the airline. “The whole idea is to find a career field that challenges you, that you have fun doing, and that gives you the lifestyle you want to have.”

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