"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/16/2016 at 09:30 • Filed to: planelopnik
7
11|
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/16/2016 at 09:30 • Filed to: planelopnik | 7
| 11 |
To mark Brunei’s National Day, Captain Sharifah Czarena Surainy, Senior First Officer Dk Nadiah Pg Khashiem and Senior First Officer Sariana Nordin flew Royal Brunei Airlines Flight BI081 to Saudi Arabia, a country where conservative Muslim clerics prohibit women from driving.
Wheelerguy
> ttyymmnn
03/16/2016 at 09:37 |
|
Live with that, Saudi Arabia!
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> ttyymmnn
03/16/2016 at 09:39 |
|
Personal favorite of this type of story:
Queen Elizabeth II taking the ruler of Saudi Arabia on a (quite aggressive) drive.
Party-vi
> ttyymmnn
03/16/2016 at 09:47 |
|
Is that...Jeremy Clarkson in a hijab on the left?
|
ttyymmnn
> Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
03/16/2016 at 09:48 |
|
I may be wrong, but I don’t the the Saudi king is necessarily against women drivers. It’s the conservative clerics who ban it, and I think the king goes along with it to keep the fundies happy. This was one of the comments to the Independent story:
Back in the 1977 I organised the “worlds first all female crew” when I scheduled an all girl crew for British Air Ferries to fly our inaugural flight for a new route from Southend to Dusseldorf.
The flight made the front page of every newspaper in the Western world. Interestingly it would never have happened if it wasn’t for the then King of Saudi Arabia.
A month or two before the Dusseldorf flight we had a private charter from the Saudi Government that was supposed to last about a week. The Head of Operations came to me when the crew scheduling indicated that we were due to send out an all girl crew for the charter, and he was worried it would go over like a lead balloon with the clients. After all, despite a few girls being commercial pilots, all the airlines went out of their way not to tell the public. The prevailing wisdom was that telling the general public you had women pilots was like committing suicide in Trafalgar Square. We had about half a dozen lady pilots and they were all in our top 10%, the girls were really very good. The private charters were prized by the crews because they got to go places outside the box and they all enjoyed doing them.
So after a brief discussion I told Ops to keep the girls on, but make sure we had some guys on stand by if it proved a real issue. When they picked up the Saudis it transpired the King was with the party and the crews messages back to HQ were deeply worried about how this might play out as his support team were having kittens.
Once the flight was in the air the King decided to pay a visit to the cockpit; I am told you could hear him laughing at the rear of the plane when he realised. In fact he loved the idea so much he extended the charter, provided the girls stayed on, for a further 2 weeks and made a habit of having Saudi Ministers he didn’t like join him as they criss-crossed Europe.
He had great fun watching his ministers shut up, go white and hang on to the armrests for dear life. He found their obvious discomfort hilarious.
He told us at the end of the charter that he had had the most fun, wished he could keep the crew and lamented his inability to move his countrymen on the issue of women and machines. Evidently most of his guests during the trip were in opposition to women rights.
Without him I would never have decided to take the leap into the dark and schedule the girls to fly the Dusseldorf route, and would never have had the balls to tell the world about it without his incredibly positive attitude to back me up.
Makes you think I hope ....
Nibby
> Party-vi
03/16/2016 at 09:48 |
|
Jasmine Clarkson.
|
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> ttyymmnn
03/16/2016 at 09:53 |
|
It could have been a Prince or something. I don’t think they were a mere diplomat. Either way the story goes that whoever he was was hanging on for dear life and begging QEII to “slow down and concentrate on the road”
But that’s nice to know about the King. Good for him.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> ttyymmnn
03/16/2016 at 10:12 |
|
This plane they are in has upside-down cupholders in the roof.
|
ttyymmnn
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
03/16/2016 at 10:20 |
|
Designed to hold one of these for those super-long transoceanic flights.
Illegitimus Prime
> ttyymmnn
03/16/2016 at 11:38 |
|
I just can’t get over the fact that the pilot on the left, from photographer perspective looks like a cardboard cutout. The other two look real but some combination of lighting and or/resizing makes her look flat.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ttyymmnn
03/16/2016 at 13:29 |
|
At the risk of sounding like one other particular commentator here, I will take exception with the insistence of using “girl” to refer to women. He doesn’t say, “boy,” after all. But this is a great story nonetheless. Thank you for posting it.
|
ttyymmnn
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/16/2016 at 15:40 |
|
Pretty sure that comment was written by a woman. At least, that’s how I read it. Agreed on use of “girl” though.