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I am currently an active member of Women in Aviation International and in a not too far future, hopefully, I would really like to join the International Society of Women Airline Pilots. Unfortunately, in the present I cannot become a member, since there are some requirements to meet in order to qualify for their membership. In fact, the ISWAP membership is exclusively given to female qualifying pilots who fly qualifying aircraft. “A Qualifying Pilot is a woman who serves as a Flight Crew Member and holds a seniority number at a FAR Part 121 or 129 Air Carrier or ICAO equivalent and possesses an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate or ICAO equivalent. This includes all pilots who are on medical leave, furloughed or retired” (International Society of Women Airline Pilots, n.d.). “A Qualifying Aircraft is any aircraft that weighs over 40,000 lbs. or 18,000 kg flown on the certificate of an FAR Part 121 or 129 Air Carrier” (International Society of Women Airline Pilots, n.d.). I honestl...

The airline industry provides services to almost every part of the globe. It has a key role for reachi ng a world fully globalized, in which geographical limits no longer represent an impassable obstacle. The development of this industry has also contributed to the growth of many sectors such as the production of aircraft, the provision of flight services and tourism. The strategic role of airports and flag carriers has always interested the various governments. In a dynamic market like this one, the competition is strongly influenced from the ability of the airlines to keep up with the competitors, in a means of cost reduction and level of services provided. Competition in the market increases when new airlines enter the business and seem more competitive. This competition however for the nations that have signed the open skies agreement with the USA, should be fair. The air transportation liberalization agreement between the United States of America and the United Arab Emirate...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the agency, under the US Department of Transportation, which responsibility is to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation. The current regulations prescribe that the administrator of such agency can fill the office for a maximum of 5 years. The last appointed FAA administrator in 2013, under the Obama administration, was Michael Huerta, who has completed his term of 5 years on January 2018, leaving like that the spot open for a new nominee (Novak, 2018) . The current acting FAA administrator is Dan Elweel, although shortly his role will be assigned to a person appointed by the Trumps’ administration (Novak, 2018) . From the list of potential candidates for covering the position of FAA administrator, the name that makes the most headlines is the one of John Dunkin, Trumps long time personal pilot. Does Dunkin have the qualifications necessary to run an agency whose employees are more than 45,000 and that has a budget of more th...