United Airlines is accepting applications for its flight school, United Aviate Academy.
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KAREN JORDAN: The airline industry expects to recover from the pandemic in a couple of years. And, when it does, United plans to diversify the cockpit. It launched a flight school called United Aviate Academy with the goal of training 5,000 pilots by the year 2030, half of which will be women and people of color.
GABRIELLE HARDING: I’ve had the pleasure of flying the Boeing 737, the Boeing Triple Seven, and now the Boeing 787.
KAREN JORDAN: Gabrielle Harding says, growing up in Detroit, she had access to programs that sparked an interest in flying. But she says many minorities just are not exposed to aviation.
GABRIELLE HARDING: And the fact that United has decided to reach out and diversify the cockpit more is wonderful, considering the cities in which United serves. They’re cosmopolitan, diverse, urban cities.
KEVIN MACK: It’s been in my blood, right? Like, it– it was one of those things I never– there was never a moment I didn’t think I was going to be a pilot.
KAREN JORDAN: Kevin Mack was a regional pilot for Delta Airlines for five years but switched careers.
KEVIN MACK: So this was that post-September-11 environment where the airlines were going into bankruptcy left and right. They were all shrinking and laying people off.
They will have a real difficult time finding that many with those primary attributes even remotely capable of flying an airplane!
Just look at the statistics everywhere else today…the people don’t exist!
Discrimination !!!! ALL people have Color incl WHITE !!!!! You mean ONLY Blacks get the job !!!!!!
Time to hire Based on who is the Most qualified, Not based on COLOR !!!!! Throw out Affirmative Action Laws !!!
I’m sorry…but I want the best pilot possible flying the plane I’m on. Don’t care if they’re black, white, brown, female, male or whatever they identify as. That’s a job that peoples lives depend on.
What happens when a plane goes down due to pilot error, and that pilot is someone who was given a job instead of earning it?
As long as da bird got a aimer and some chilly wind we be good!
I salute the score card of “diversity” as the deciding factor as to who pilots a commercial aircraft. It will be the great equalizer of who lives and dies in this world. I relish the idea of getting rid of the idiots and stupid people who are those selected to pilot, and those who are stupid enough to fly, on these doomed aircraft. I would have to bet that it is 99.9% liberal, 100% dumb-ass-crat, and 200% idiot. No matter the ratio—-all aboard!!!!!! Darwin is still alive and well—and waiting.
Don’t fly on those planes !!!! Boycott
lol most will be Muslin they will just learn to take off dont need to land just crash
They will Land in the White House !!!! Thank the Democrats WOKE !!!