Dual-Scholarship Opportunity Aims to ‘Diversify the Skies’

I Hart Flying Foundation and Girls Love to Fly are offering more than $18,000 in scholarships for flight training.

Friday, April 07, 2023 at 03:28 PM ET

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IHFF and GLTF have partnered to provide women in flight with dual-scholarship opportunities, as well as support mentorship, career advisement, and community building. [Credit: iStock]

Key Takeaways:

Less than 5 percent of airline transport pilots are women, a significant gender gap that I Hart Flying Foundation (IHFF) and Girls Love to Fly (GLTF) are working to bridge.
The two non-profits have partnered to launch the "All Hands on Deck" scholarship, offering over $18,000 in flight training funds, resources, and swag for women and girls.
Individual scholarships range from $2,500 to $5,000 and include perks like King Schools training packages; applications are open until April 28, 2023.

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There are so few female airline transport pilots (ATPs), you can fit them all on an Airbus A380. That’s a sobering statistical visualization from a release put out by I Hart Flying Foundation (IHFF) and Girls Love to Fly (GLTF), announcing their scholarship partnership dedicated to providing support for women and girls interested in flight training and aviation careers.

As the aviation industry grows and diversifies, more opportunities are becoming available for women and girls who aspire to fly. However, barriers such as high training costs and gender biases persist, and women still represent less than 5 percent of all current ATP certificate holders, according to 2022 statistics released by the FAA.