A mother and daughter who are both pilots have become Southwest Airlines’ first mom-daughter duo to pilot an aircraft together.
On July 23, 2022, Captain Holly Petitt and her daughter, First Officer Keely Petitt, co-piloted Southwest flight #3658 from their hometown of Denver, Colorado, to St. Louis, Missouri. Flying the two-hour flight, they made history for the airline company.
“It’s been a dream come true,” Holly said in a Southwest press release. “First, I found this career and fell in love with it, and then that one of my kids fell into this and in love with this career too. It’s surreal.”…