To mark the occasion of International Women’s Day, Air India operated an all women crew flight to Sri Lanka on Thursday, March 8, from Chennai to Colombo and then from Colombo to New Delhi.
The plane was piloted by Capt V. Roopa and Capt Nimisha Goel and accompanied by cabin crew Ria, Zena, Ritika, Tianaro and Haritha.
L. Ramesh Babu and Ms Neha Singh of the High Commission of India welcomed the crew members at a ceremony at BIA, Katunayake. Key achievements of Air India:· Operated the first round-the-world trip entirely staffed by women in 2017.
The aircraft B 777 flew from Delhi to San Francisco on the Pacific route and then San Francisco to Delhi on the Atlantic route. · In 1990 Ms. Nivedita Bhashan became the youngest women pilot in the world of civil aviation history to command a commercial Jet Aircraft at the age of 26.