The Royal Brunei Airlines flight is the latest in a long line of airlines who have embraced female empowerment at 32,000ft
A female air crew have made history by touching down the plane they were flying in in Saudi Arabia - a country where women aren't even allowed to drive cars.
The three were a female first for Royal Brunei Airlines , flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on flight BI081 from Brunei to Jeddah.
Captain Sharifah Czarena and senior first officers Sariana Nordin and Dk Nadiah Pg Khashiem have been snapped proudly sharing the moment.
The flight was celebrating Brunei's national day, an annual holiday since the day independence was gained from the UK in 1984.
After training at the Cabair Flying School at Cranfield, Bedfordshire, Czarena now operates a number of the state-owned carrier’s major routes.
She was the first-ever Royal Brunei pilot to fly out of Heathrow in its flagship Boeing 787 Dreamliner in 2013, reports the Daily Mail.
Last week saw Air India operating its first-ever all-women crew flight from Delhi to San Francisco on International Women's Day.
Flight AI 173 also features the longest ever women-only flight crew, covering a total distance of 14,600kms in 17 hours, part of the Women of Aviation Worldwide Week events.
Brunei, on the north of Borneo in southeast Asia, is a sovereign state that's been criticised before for its women's rights record.
In 2014 Brunei adopted strict Islamic sharia laws which allow punishment such as stoning for adultery.
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