Mother and daughter pilots fly the Pacific together
Thu, 09/01/2022 - 9:24am
Source: KHON 2
Honolulu, HAWAII — Hawaiian Airlines operated their very first flight with a mother and daughter pilot on Wednesday, Aug. 31.
Mother, Captain Kamelia Zarka and her daughter, First Officer Maria Zarka took flight over the Pacific.
The mother, a Boeing 717 captain, was the first Tongan woman to captain a commercial airline.

![Hawaiian Airlines first mother daughter pilots [courtesy: Bryan Shirota – Hawaiian Airlines] Captain Kamelia Zarka and her daughter, First Officer Maria Zarka](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/field/image/mother-daughter_pilotsweb.jpg?itok=-t-ATtH9)