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Southwest Airlines Celebrates First Mother/Daughter Pilot Duo

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On July 23, 2022, Holly and Keely Petitt piloted their first Southwest Airlines flight together, making it the first mother and daughter duo for the carrier. (www.gatechecked.com) Más...

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coastalrap
Rich Pasco 9
It’s a great story regardless of the negative posts of the he-man woman haters club.
Cleffer
Cleffer 17
Very cool!
swinkey58
Daniel Hagan 13
Great feel good story to begin my day!
Congratulations Holly and Keely.

jmcmicken
John McMicken 6
thank you southwest for allowing this to work "inside the box". It had to be a special event for the ladies and pax!! positive rate, gear up..
gilgraham
gilgraham 9
That'd never worked in my family. A fight would've broken out before cruising altitude.
padavin
Paolo Vinci 9
Great story!!
w2bsa
w2bsa 9
Outstanding!!
jkeifer3
Joe Keifer 8
Outstanding!
watkinssusan
what a wonderful story!congratulations to them both! its quite a feat and a n historical moment!
Catella9
Ella Fast 6
What a great inspiration!
LeanderWilliams
Congrats to mom and daughter. I wonder if that was a one-time crew allowance. I have heard that airlines don't want immediate family members flying together in case of that worst-case scenario. Sort of like the Military would not let me serve in Vietnam because my brother was already there.
ronaldavjacobs
Ronald Jacobs 1
Must admit I'd assumed it WAS a rule that close relatives could not crew together.
LeanderWilliams
I'm not sure if it is a written-in-stone rule, but if you saw the movie Saving Private Ryan, I think it follows the same thinking. The airlines don't want to have to tell a family that their father-son or daughter or wife-son or daughter both perished in a crash. Personally, I think immediate family members should be allowed to fly together JUST ONCE, and then revert back to flying with others.
AWAAlum
AWAAlum 1
Even in corporate America, top execs aren't supposed to fly together.
LeanderWilliams
That is why the President and Vice President have separate aircraft
anthony96
Inspiring
roosa1660
Fred Rosa 5
Great news! My wife and mother-in-law were both United Methodist pastors. Breaking ground is great, but why has it taken so long?

And neckties??? Come on, SWA. It's time for a real female uniform.
AWAAlum
AWAAlum 0
It's 2022 Fred.
vea542011
Awesome! Congrats!
1simpson
Bill Simpson 4
Mom: Flaps 10. Daughter: I don’t want to mother. Mom: Now is not the time, dear. In all seriousness, wonderful story.
gilgraham
gilgraham 3
exactly: "gear up" - quit telling me what to do! "you over rotated" - shut up! "He said 10,000"-I've got ears don't I! "well, you missed a turn back there" - I brought you into this world...
ronspencer47
Ronald Spencer 3
Great outcome congratulations
garsontheelbe
gary williams 3
Fantastic!
m4design
Andre Page 3
Hah! My Mom was right... After a flight she said: "There are children running the plane" ;-)
gszymanek11
Wonderful - and inspiring
frankaddison
Frank Addison 2
Fantastic
yuencao
cao yuen 1
great!
williamscottrobertson
They may be the first to FLY TOGETHER but they were not the first mother-daughter duo pilots for Southwest. The first was Cathy Jones (hired 1982) and Claudia Simpson-Jones! I also recall watching the two on a Good Morning America spotlight in the '90s - one that included Captain Claudia's new husband at the time, First Officer Fred Sorenson - as they were 'all in the family' pilots at SWA! Claudia retired in 2000.

They are pictured together here on a CO jet prior to being hired at SWA (Claudia flew for Continental and Cathy for Hughes Airwest I believe) - https://isa21.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Claudia-and-Cathy-Jones-1980.jpg
Jmcginlay2
Jim McGinlay 1
A great accomplishment but, for the sake of the rest of the family, I think they should fly separately god forbid if something tragic occurred.
USMC1310
John Stalnaker 1
Excellent!
Rjk47
SWA - That’s my airline ✈️
ranchdog
Michael Reamy 1
Awesome!!!

HOU CA retired
derryckpc
Awesome
thomafrancl
Thomas Francl 0
Terrific! Hope they didn't have any mother-daughter arguments.
lynx318
lynx318 0
Imagining chat midflight:
Mom, "Do you have to flirt with that scruffy baggage handler?"
Daughter, "He makes me laugh"
Mom, "How he treats PAX luggage is enough to make anyone laugh."
steerts
This is something very special and they are both damn fine looking as well.
ed7778
Dennis Stockton -5
So now it's not the cockpit but the box office.

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