Born on the Danish island of Bornholm, Charlotte became the first female pilot in the Royal Danish Air Force in 1989, and served for many years as a helicopter search and rescue pilot. She worked at the Civil Aviation Authority in Luxembourg as a flight operations inspector, and later became CEO of Luxaviation Helicopters. She is currently the Founder and CEO of advisory company Pegasus Consilium SarL and serves among others, as a Member of the Board to WizzAir and Air Greenland. Drawing on her own experience she stresses the enormous potential for exciting opportunities the sector has to offer and hopes in particular to reach a young generation with her story.
As the chair of Air Greenland’s strategy committee, she talks about the unique character of air operations in Greenland – an expanse almost as large as India yet sparsely inhabited, and facing severe weather conditions that make air transport connectivity crucially important for remote communities.
Charlotte also expands on the twin challenge of needing aviation to boost the economy, but also to invest in new technology to reduce CO2 emissions from aviation – especially in sustainable aviation fuel or electric aircraft for short haul transportation.
