“Flying is a man’s job and its worries are a man’s worries,” wrote Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in his great adventure book Wind, Sand and Stars, published in 1939. Loyal “Vantage Point” readers will recall that this is the very book I touted in my column last month. While I still recommend the book, the history of the airline industry — and of American Airlines — proves that with respect to the role of women in aviation, one of my favorite authors was way off base.
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