Taylor Rice receives pilot offer from a major airline.
Over the past four years, A-B Tech graduate Taylor Rice has completed the college’s Aviation Management and Career Pilot Technology degrees, has become a flight instructor, and has acquired sufficient flight hours to qualify as a commercial airline pilot.
Rice, 22, recently became the first female A-B Tech aviation graduate to receive a job offer from a major airline. She was conditionally hired by American Airlines, a subsidiary of PSA Airlines, subject to completing additional flight hours—and now she’s on track to become a First Officer in 2026.
Rice became interested in flying as a child watching a TV show with her dad that investigated plane crashes. At first, she wanted to be a flight attendant. As a high school student she attended an A-B Tech Aviation open house with her father and enrolled in the program after graduating in 2021…