Prior to June 2018, limitations to women's rights in Saudi Arabia and a longtime ban on women's driving largely kept women from participating freely in the country's general and commercial aviation in
Saudi Arabian airlines
Al Waleed bin Talal personally intervened to issue the first commercial pilot's license to a woman to operate in Saudi Arabia
King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh
Plane operated by Saudi Aramco
The General Authority of Civil Aviation is a governmental authority in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, first established in 1934. GACA regulates and develops civil aviation and the air transport industry in Sau
History of women in aviation in Saudi Arabia
…fly Alwaleed bin Talal's private jet. In June 2014, Yasmin Al-Maimani became the second Saudi woman to receive a commercial pilot license from the General Authority of Civil Aviation. Al Maimani completed her pilot training in Jordan in 2010 and received her pilot's license in the United States. After exchanging her U.S. license for…
Al-Duailej, the GACA head, in November 2022