The first domestic flight of a Saudi airline with a female crew

A Saudi airline has completed its first flight in the Kingdom's history with an all-women crew, officials said Saturday, in a step it described as an important event on the path to empowering women in Saudi Arabia.

The flight of the low-cost "Flyadeal" company of Saudi Airlines took off from the capital, Riyadh, bound for Jeddah on Thursday, according to the company's spokesman Imad Iskandarani.

Iskandarani reported that "the majority" of the seven-person crew were women, including the co-pilot, except for the captain, who was a foreign woman.

The General Authority of Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia, which confirmed the announcement of the "Flyadeal" company on Saturday, praised the expansion of the role of women in the aviation sector in recent years.

And in 2019, the authority announced the first flight among its crew, a Saudi assistant to the pilot.

Saudi goals for the aviation sector, which are part of Vision 2030 reforms, include more than threefold increase in annual passenger traffic to 300 million passengers by the end of the current decade.

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