Kate McWilliams
Airline Captain
Former Trinity student Kate McWilliams is 26 and the youngest ever commercial female airline captain.
She flies to around 100 destinations across the world and says most people “are pleasantly surprised and impressed” when she tells them her age.
Last year the airline company announced a plan to increase its number of female pilots. Kate is originally from Carlisle, but now lives in Surrey so she can be near to Gatwick Airport, she began flying in the air cadets when she was 13 years old, but admitted to the Press Association that she never thought she could become a commercial pilot.
