{"id":361005,"date":"2026-02-02T21:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/good-leader-surrounded-good-team-advice-chief-pilot\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:31:46","slug":"to-be-a-good-leader-you-need-to-be-surrounded-by-a-good-team-advice-from-a-chief-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=361005","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To Be A Good Leader, You Need To Be Surrounded By A Good Team\u201d &#8211; Advice From A Chief Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir is the chief pilot at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255478\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/icelandair\/\"  >Icelandair<\/a><\/span> and leads a team of approximately 620 pilots. Female pilots make up 14% of the carrier&#8217;s flight crew, which is one of the highest percentages among major airlines. In recent years, her daughter, Birna Katrin Gunnlaugsd\u00f3ttir, joined the team and is piloting a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256054\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/dash-8\/\"  >Dash 8<\/a><\/span>. It had been a dream of hers for a long time and was inspired by her mother. Linda&#8217;s father, Gunnar \u00deorvaldsson, was a pilot too, and she dreamed of following in his footsteps, but did not feel like it was an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication and teamwork is everything in aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,496,5872,629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cabin-crew","category-flight-crew","category-pilots"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361006,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361005\/revisions\/361006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}