The airline is the latest brand to reveal a gender pay gap under a new government scheme designed to highlight the issue. Tui told The Guardian that the gap resulted from low numbers of women in flight deck, engineering, technology and senior management.

Tui Airways’ 870 pilots – 95% of them male - earn an average £111,683. Almost 80% of the airline’s cabin crew are women, who are paid an average £26,272. At its head office, 62% of its 3,308 staff are women, but men are more likely to hold better-paid roles.

Tui told the newspaper it “would try and find answers both internally and with the rest of the airline industry” and added: “We remain committed to raising awareness within the retail and airline industry on all aspects of diversity and inclusion, as well as effecting change in our own business.”

Only 4% of the world’s commercial pilots are women and easyJet has set a target of 20% by 2020. EasyJet has already seen this figure jump from 6% in 2015 to 13% now.