At age six, after countless hours spent waiting for her dad in the airport, Jessica Reinschmidt decided to become a pilot. She would watch them walk through the terminal, uniforms crisp and luggage in hand. “I can count on one hand the number of women I saw,” she says. Forty years later, as a captain for a major airline, she’s among the six percent of commercial pilots who are women. From Seattle, where she’d just landed a flight, Reinschmidt recalls some of the most hostile moments in her 14-year career: a colleague calling her a diversity hire; a captain mistaking her for a flight attendant; passengers who refused to board after seeing two women in the cockpit. “You’re constantly