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:: He thinks it's somehow noteworthy that he comes across 2 black pilots... in Africa. This is because of how few there are in America, he claims. Would he have had the same reaction in, say, Indonesia or China
It's quite possible that he could do so. For many years such airlines as Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines ... and, yes, even Garuda, used more non-Asian pilots in the cockpit than Asian pilots. (Even knew an American who "retired" from a US airline to fly for SIA in the early 90's.) IIRC, during the time I lived in Asia (until 1992), Japan Air Lines was the only Asian international carrier with flight officers on the deck, more often than not, who were both Asian.
