Adva Amir
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107 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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So I went back. It took me some months to understand. I was hoping maybe one, two months, three months, I'll be back. And then after time passes, I understood that I need to do something. So I started to do marketing for small businesses. I opened my business. I was starting doing that. And I was doing that for a whole year till they call us back.
That's amazing. Yeah, I had to. And I didn't want to just sit at home because then you don't know, there are a lot of thoughts and I wanted to do something. And I found the one thing everybody needed at the time, everyone were moving to online platforms. And I had this experience from before. So it really helped me to help other people to find their audience online now.
So after about one year, I went back. They call us back. I was so happy to go back and fly. I had to finish training too, but we had to start everything from zero again. So I finished training. I become a first officer. So when you're just starting at an airline, you become a first officer.
And then after you get enough hours, normally it's a thousand, but it depends between company and company, you become a captain. So I was working at a first officer for about two years, and then I got upgraded to a captain.
It's very, very, very low. Very low. I think less than 2% actually become captain. And, you know, during my time in the airline, I only got to fly with two other women in the cockpit. So you can understand the statistic is not really for us. Right.
All the gossips that went in the cockpit this day. No, I'm joking.
And I got a lot of remarks also as a first officer. I think they just were extended when I became a captain. But the flight attendant thing used to happen a lot. I would come to the gate, to the gate agent. And sometimes when we commute back and forth from work, If the flight is full, we have the benefits of taking the jump seat, which is the seat in the cockpit.
And I would go and I would ask for the jump seat and they would tell me, oh, you can't. And I'm like, why I can't? And they say, because it's only for pilots. I was like, but I'm a pilot. So this would happen so many times just based on my look and the assumption that I must be the flight attendant. And it happened so many times, like really, I cannot even tell you.
But I take it in a humor way and it's not like insulting me or hurting me because I know it's a awareness kind of thing because there's so little women in aviation.
This was after we got back from COVID. After my first flight at the airline, I decided to write a post. It was about my journey. And as we talked about all the negative comments, it was important for me to show to people that it doesn't matter what people say. They can tell you everything, but eventually you are the only one who knows what you are capable of.
So sometimes we take these comments so seriously. from people we don't even know that don't even know us and what we're capable of.
I got a lot of comments from people after I shared this post about things they wanted to do and they had a dream to do, but they didn't do it. And all of a sudden, when I showed my way and my journey, I remember I had one guy who told me he has a high paid, like high tech job and he wants to volunteer in Africa. And this post made him go and do that.
And he's been volunteering in Africa and opening his own nonprofit. there. So, and this is just one story among a lot of them. I got a lot of messages from flight attendants who want to become a pilot and this post pushed them to do that. And when I wrote the post, I just wanted to share my journey.
I had no idea it will have such an impact and we'll get like 3 million views and so many people will see that. And I think when you do something really from your heart, this is what happened.
I was really just wanted to share my journey. I wasn't working on anything. I was just beginning my flight journey at a new company.
And I told you I had so many struggles during the way and so many comments and I had this breakdown and then I had the breakthrough and then I had COVID and like every time like you're trying to hold your face above the water and you feel like drowning sometimes and then it happened. Like you see the light and
I remember like my first flight, I was pulling into the gate and it was all kind of the mirrors reflecting. So I couldn't really see myself, but I say, wow, I'm like flying this big jet. And I just wanted more people to go and show them that this is possible experience. Like if you have a dream, you can go and do that. There will be challenges. There will be a lot of barriers.
There will be a lot of breakdowns, but it's possible. So this was my goal.
Hawaiian Airlines is an amazing company and Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world.
Correct. When I moved to Hawaii and started working for the airline here, I'm now flying the Airbus 330, which is the long haul flights. So a lot of flights from the islands to the West Coast. And we fly to Japan and Australia, South Korea as well. So, yeah, I do a lot of long flights right now.
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