Air Canada is pleased to announce that the application\nprocess for the second annual Captain Judy Cameron Scholarship, established in\nhonor of the airline’s first female pilot with the goal of helping the next\ngeneration of women follow in her trailblazing footsteps, is now open. The\nscholarship is awarded in conjunction with the Northern Lights Aero Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The aviation industry has undergone drastic changes\nover the last few months Encouraging the next generation of girls and young\nwomen to pursue their aviation dreams is as important as ever. Air Canada\nremains committed to championing equal opportunities for all qualified people.\nLast year, four pilots-in-training benefitted from this scholarship and we look\nforward to selecting the next honorees. Many capable and qualified women work\nat Air Canada as pilots flying the most sophisticated aircraft globally, as\nengineers maintaining technologically advanced airplanes and systems, and in\nspecialized, multidisciplinary airline operations. At Air Canada, there is no\nglass ceiling. Women hold C-suite, executive and senior management roles across\nour airline,” said Arielle Meloul-Wechsler, Executive Vice President,\nChief Human Resources and Communications Officer at Air Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The scholarship is probably the biggest honor in my\nentire life. Air Canada decided that they would do a $20,000 a year\nscholarship, to be divided amongst selected applicants who are pursuing a\ncareer either as pilots or aircraft maintenance engineers. And I think it’s\njust wonderful that they want to support diversity in this business. It is\ngeared towards women who might not otherwise be able to pursue the career. I\nthink it’s gratifying, it’s heartwarming. It makes me very proud,” Captain\nJudy Cameron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier this year, the first recipients of the Captain Judy\nCameron Scholarship were named, four young women who are in the process of\ncompleting their flight training to become pilots: Olivia White, Rebecca\nBeylerian, Urooj Ali and Yasna Taieb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This scholarship has provided me with immense\nfinancial support. Just recently, I completed my night rating and I’m currently\nworking on finishing my Commercial Pilot’s License. Both of these are being\nsupported by the Captain Judy Cameron Scholarship. This scholarship allows me to put aside my\nfinancial worries and instead just focus on flying and my aviation\ncareer,” said Urooj Ali, who is in her second year of Geography and\nAviation at the University of Waterloo, and currently flies out of Waterloo\nWellington Flight Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The scholarship has helped, not only financially, but\njust through the support of having organizations and people and pilots that are\nthere to support you as a woman in aviation, working towards their career. I\nalso met some really fantastic pilots, be that captains from Air Canada, as\nwell as other recipients of the award. We’re still in touch. It was an honor to\nmeet them all,” said Olivia White, who is working toward her Commercial\nPilot License at the University of Windsor and Journey Air Flight Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judy Cameron became the first female pilot hired by Air\nCanada, Canada’s largest airline, in April 1978 at the age of 23. She was the\nfirst woman to graduate from Selkirk College’s Aviation Technology Program in\n1975. Throughout her flying career of 40 years and over 23,000 hours, she has\nflown the DC-3, Twin Otter, Hawker Siddeley 748, DC-9, Lockheed 1011, Airbus\n320, Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 to the far corners of the world. She became a\ncaptain in 1997 and in 2010, she became the first female captain in Canada of a\nBoeing 777, the largest aircraft in Air Canada’s fleet. She retired in 2015,\nreceived the Elsie MacGill Northern Lights award in the Flight Operations\ncategory that year, and in 2016 she was chosen by the 99s (International\nOrganization of Women Pilots) to be on its Canadian postage stamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the second year of Air Canada’s three-year\ncommitment to awarding $20,000 per year for the scholarship. The Captain Judy\nCameron scholarship targets young women in pursuit of non-traditional aviation\ncareers as commercial pilots or aircraft maintenance engineers who may not have\nthe financial means to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Applications for the scholarship are open and will be\naccepted until November 30, 2020. It will be open to all women who are Canadian\ncitizens who have been accepted or are enrolled in a post-secondary aviation\nflight program or aircraft repair and maintenance program. Those selected to\nreceive a scholarship will be notified by January 18, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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