Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi (Arabic: هنادي زكريا الهندي) is the first Saudi woman to become a pilot.
She passed her final exams at the Middle East Academy for Commercial Aviation in Amman, Jordan on 15 June 2005.
[2] She has a ten-year contract with Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company[3][4] as a pilot of his private jet, the Kingdom.
Al-Waleed, who is considered a proponent for female emancipation in the Saudi world, financed her training[2] and stated on her graduation that he is "in full support of Saudi ladies working in all fields".
[5] Reports highlighted the irony that a Saudi woman is allowed to pilot an aeroplane but may not drive a car (although this has changed in 2017[6]).