An Afghanistan airline known as Kam Air recently made history with an all-female crew service flight.
The two female pilots accompanied by four women cabin crew, flew the Boeing 737-500 from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to Herat in the West of Afghanistan on February 24, 2021.
This was just four days after Ghanaian airline, PassionAir, had successfully undertaken the first-ever all-female crew service flight on February 20, 2021.
Announcing the feat achieved, PassionAir via a press release stated, “The flight, OP 178 from Accra to Tamale, was entirely ‘womanned’ by women from the flight deck to the cabin.”
“We hope this historic moment empowers and inspires women all over the world,” added PassionAir.
The crew members onboard PassionAir’s flight were Judith Amoasi (Cabin Crew Lead), Captain Eva Gichuru, First Officer Shelia Njonjo and Judith Boachie.
In a nation that has a history of poor women’s rights, the flight was not only a first for Kam Air, but a first for Afghanistan too.
While airlines often like to make a media splash about their support for women in aviation, Kam Air was unable to celebrate this event due to the heightened security in the country.
Kam Air is a relatively young Afghanistan airline, having been established in 2003. It remains the only privately run airline in the country.
Although it is currently banned from EU airspace, its recent certification under the IATA IOSA scheme gives it hope for being removed from the blacklist.
