According to today.com, Delta Air Lines’ WING program (Women Inspiring the Next Generation) has been putting girls on flights since 2015 that are exclusively ran by women. WING’s goal is to introduce a new generation of girls to jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), something that many people believe is a very crucial step in closing the gender gap that exists in commercial cockpits. According to Delta’s VP and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer Keyra Lynn Johnson told TODAY that, “For every 100 male (pilots), there’s only six women — and there are even fewer women of color in that example, So today’s flight gives us an opportunity to not just wait on the talent to arrive but actually to grow the talent that we need for the future.”
Every single person that is involved in the flight is female, from those on the flight, to TSA and ticket agents on the ground and according to Captain Cheri Rohlfing a co-founder of the program, “I want them to see that they can do it, So they can say, ‘OK, I want to be a pilot,’ or ‘Do I want to be a mechanic?'”
This flight in particular took a special group of passengers to the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. This was the first time a commercial flight landed at the NASA field center, and NASA’s Artemis team is currently working on sending the first woman to the moon.
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