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DHABI: Regularly flying across the world, traversing different time zones and
flying the world’s largest passenger aircraft — the Airbus A380 — is all in a
day’s work for Emirati pilot Aisha Al Mansouri, a senior first officer with
Etihad Airways.
It
all started when her sister, who was already a pilot, took her to an air show
in Al Ain.
“While
visiting the event there were some people working there who told me that a
national cadet programme was opening at Etihad, so I looked into the programme
and decided to join, and within eight months I was hired.”
Her
first flight on the job was on an Airbus A320 to …read more
Source: The Frontier Post
