A tweet about this was the first thing I noticed about travel and IWD: Trainline partners with Code First:Girls to train 20,000 women in coding by 2020. The plan is to deliver a training programme with their staff acting as mentors for women, and Trainline will also provide financial support. Together they will campaign to raise between £0.5M and £1.5M each year for three years.
As the DailyEdge put it, “Aer Lingus offered women priority boarding for International Women’s Day and it caused a LOT of controversy”. Apparently a few were calling for the same to happen on International Men’s Day, and there was some rather unhelpful dialogue on Twitter, but overall this was well received by both men and women.
Today we’re marking International Women’s Day by offering our female guests priority boarding on short-haul flights. #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/yDDjhNdRBP
— Aer Lingus (@AerLingus) March 8, 2018
If you travelled on a Gatwick Express train you would have been inspired by quotes from famous women shared on the passenger information displays.
Go Ahead Group’s Morebus shared a video of three female bus drivers, discussing what it’s like when there are so many more male bus drivers.
Happy International Women’s Day! #IWD2018
Our local driving heroes, Alison, Carolyn and Donna are sharing what it’s like to be a bus driver in a predominantly male-based industry. View the video on Facebook: https://t.co/FZQXSo44DH… pic.twitter.com/MzayTGzwrw
— Morebus (@Morebusco) March 8, 2018
At Emirates an all-women team made flight EK 225 from Dubai to San Francisco happen. This included a fully female flight crew, and only women working on all the ‘above wing’ and ‘below wing’ activities to enable the flight to depart. This was a team of over 75 women, with over 25 nationalities between them, so there may not have been gender diversity that day, but it was certainly a diverse team.
http://starrfmonline.com/2018/03/08/iwd-emirates-female-staff-take-centre-stage/
But it wasn’t just Emirates, on Monday 5th British Airways claimed a record for the most women involved in a single flight – crew, baggage handlers, check-in staff and security. (But Emirates seem to have smashed that on the Thursday, see above.) This was flight BA1484 from London Heathrow to Glasgow. easyJet had six all-female crews operating 16 easyJet flights on #IWD2018 and Virgin Atlantic had three all-female crews on flights out of Manchester, London Gatwick and London Heathrow.
http://talkradio.co.uk/news/airlines-launch-all-female-crews-international-womens-day-18030724664
One of Virgin Trains East Coast’s business travel professionals spent time at Northern Ballet to share thoughts on women in leadership.
Proud to have been representing @Virgin_TrainsEC with @Tish1976 at the Women in the Lead International Women’s Day networking event hosted by Northern Ballet. Great panel and inspiring conversations. #pressforprogress #InternationalWomensDay #northernballet pic.twitter.com/Z3yRAyEcxB
— Samantha McKnight (@sambeth0310) March 8, 2018
Several airports also had all-women teams on shift, including Bengaluru and Kempegowda
Maersk partnered with ITC for an IWD event, #SheTrades, and shared this video:
Bold actions are needed to close the gender gap in #trade and the economy, says @UNOG_DG.
Like supporting female entrepreneurs.#IWD2018 #SheTrades #PressForProgress @ITCNews pic.twitter.com/MEfMT8OGaC
— Maersk (@Maersk) March 7, 2018
I’m proud to be a woman working in travel and transportation, and IT.
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