The Independent:
“The first ever all-female flight deck crew for Royal Brunei Airlines has operated a plane from Brunei to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
Although it was a milestone for the airline, the pilot crew touched down in a country where women are still not allowed to drive a car.
To mark Brunei’s National Day, which celebrates the country’s independence, Captain Sharifah Czarena Surainy Syed Hashim, Senior First Officer Dk Nadiah Pg Khashiem and Senior First Officer Sariana Nordin flew flight BI081, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, to the Middle Eastern country on 23 February.”
The three flight officers piloted their 787 Dreamliner into a country where the prevailing attitude towards women operating automobiles is perhaps best summed up in this video….
These three women pilots however, as well as the feisty Saudi ladies in the viral video below (with a familiar orange co-star), are looking to changes things in the kingdom for the better.
If you want to sing along the lyrics go a little something like this:
May men go extinct (x8)
They caused us psychiatric diseases (x4)
(music)
May none of them stay sane (x8)
Everyone of them is like possessed by a female demon (x8)
Heh.
Congratulations, officers Hashim, Khashiem and Nordin for your history making flight.
But don’t try to drive to your hotel...