Originally Posted by
edi-traveller
Remember going to Spain on Holiday circa 1977 with my parents. Got on a Dan Air BAC111 - pilot introduced herself as Yvonne Sintes - nearly every man on the plane wanted to get off!!
Apparantly she was one of the first female pilots in the UK - married a Spaniard - can't remember her maiden name.
Quoting myself - managed to find out about her by googling:
Dan-Air was one of the first UK-based airlines to employ female pilots with up to four ladies among its 450-strong pilot community during the second half of the 1970s. [2] It was also the first UK airline to have a female pilot in command of jet aircraft, a Mrs. Yvonne Sintes, who became one of Dan-Air's BAC 1-11 captains in 1975. [3] She regularly sat in the left-hand seat of the airline's BAC 1-11s and De Havilland Comets until her retirement in 1980.