Meet the 26-year-old airline captain and her 19-year-old co-pilot Easyjet captain Kate McWilliams in the cockpit with co-pilot Luke Elsworth. Young guns: Easyjet pilots Luke Elsworth and Kate McWilliams. Of the 130,000 airline pilots worldwide, just 450 are female captains according to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots, and McWilliams has urged more women to … More Baby Pilots on the Aviation Horizon