Air France/KLM celebrates International Women's Day with all female crew flight

The Air France all-female flight crew recently visited GAIA HOUSE for a conversation on breaking the bias in professions in the celebration of International Women's Day #breakthebias.

Air France/KLM recently operated a 100 percent all-women crew on Paris-Lagos route to celebrate International Women’s Day. Those on the flight include Laurence Lecarme (Captain); Melanie Farge (Co-Pilot) Errina Bacquie (Co-Pilot) supported by three members of the commercial crew: Olivia Verdoux; Oceane Gauthier and Sarah Salles.

This is as the airline again restates the airline’s commitment to gender equality on board. The Air France all-female flight crew recently visited GAIA HOUSE for a conversation on breaking the bias in professions in the celebration of International Women’s Day #breakthebias.

A roundtable discussion was moderated by Lehle Balde of Business Day and held with the Captain, and two Co-Pilots as well as Laurence Monmayrant (first woman Consul General for France in Nigeria) and Christine Quantin (First woman Country Manager for AF France-KLM in Nigeria and Olatowun Candide-Johnson (Founder & CEO, GAIA AFRICA).

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It was an inspirational discussion about how each one managed to #BreakTheBias in their respective professions.

The consistent theme was that mothers played a huge role in encouraging each one to aim for the sky and that Representation- seeing people who look like you in positions considered unattainable – is hugely important and impactful.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.