Every year, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, Air India, the third largest airline in India, operates all-women flights. Air India was also the first carrier in the world to operate an all-women crew flight in 1985.
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Besides, the national carrier today said it would be operate over 20 all-women crew flights in domestic routes on March 8 – the International Women’s day.
Under the command of Captain Kshamta Bajpayee and Captain Shubani Singh, the entire crew, check-in staff, cockpit crew, doctors, even the technician, engineer, flight dispatcher and trimmer will be women. The flight will leave March 6 and return March 8.
Members of Air India’s historic flight AI 173 during a function to celebrate a New Delhi-San Francisco flight with all-women crew on board at a function on March 5, 2016 in New Delhi, India.
Air India launched the route from India to the U.S. west coast, among the longest scheduled flights in the world, in December.
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The flight, which travelled a distance of around 14,500 kilometre in close to 17 hours, was operated as part of International Women’s Day celebrations. According to him, the airline has enormous respect for women and everyone associated with the flight, including pilots, engineers and those at the gate would be women.
