Etihad Airways is celebrating the maiden commercial flight of its first female Captain, Sophie Blanchard. Captain Blanchard, a French national, will take the controls of the left hand seat in the flight deck for the first time on Wednesday 8 September for flight EY17 from Abu Dhabi to London-Heathrow. She joined Etihad in 2007 as a First Officer, after initially flying for Etihad Crystal Cargo...