All-women flight crew in Argentina breaks new ground on equality

[Judi Lynn]

Source: International Transport Workers' Federation

All-women flight crew in Argentina breaks new ground on equality
20 April 2011

Unions’ battle to win equality for women in Argentina reached a pinnacle of achievement when the first flight crewed by an all-female team took off from Buenos Aires airport earlier this month.

The Aerolineas Argentinas flight, which left the airport on 1 April, was operated by Captain Viviana Rosell Benavente, co-pilot Colonel Maria Fernanda and cabin crew chief Marcela Ferre Ferre as well as cabin crew staff Adriana Rodriguez and Natalia Losi. They are all members either of the ITF’s affiliates Asociación Argentina de Aeronavegantes (AAA), the cabin crew union, or Asociación de Pilotos de Líneas Aéreas, the pilots’ union, which have long campaigned for gender equality.

Alicia Castro of the AAA and member of the ITF women’s committee explained how an all female crew was still unusual in the commercial aviation sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. She said: “Those who have been campaigning for some 30 years to promote equal opportunities for women are very happy with this ground-breaking development. It was as a result of our struggle that women began to enter into careers as head of cabin crew. Our union also succeeded in introducing cabin crew licensing, which helped raise the standards of the profession, preventing casualisation and outsourcing.”






Read more: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/5893?frmSessionLanguage=ENG

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