Background
Saarah Sabah Hameed Ahmed was born and grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka.
Saarah Sabah Hameed Ahmed was born and grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka.
She currently works for SpiceJet. Early Life and After completing a Pacific Union College at Jyothi Nivas College, in 2007 Ahmed enrolled in the Paris Air Flight Training School in Vero Beach, Florida. Ahmed did not initially receive support within the community and her family tried to discourage her, but they relented when she insisted and a friend of her father"s who is a pilot with Southwest Airlines offered reassurances.
After a year of study and logging 200 flight hours, Ahmed received her commercial pilot"s license in 2008.
She returned to India and undertook the process to convert her license to an Indian certification, which required both a waiting period and additional training in Lithuania to learn about specific commercial aircraft types. When confronted by Islamophobia or people who are surprised that a "girl can handle a machine that"s many times her size," Ahmed often uses humor and tact to defuse the situation.
After completion of her Bachelor of Business Administration and some 1200 flying hours, she was recruited by SpiceJet Airlines in 2010 as a commercial pilot.