To mark the International Women’s Day, Air India today operated an ‘All Women Crew' flight between Bangalore and Delhi.
Bangalore-based Capt V. Roopa in command along with Capt. Niranjana Ashok, the first officer as co-pilot, operated the Airbus A319 flight AI 804 to Delhi.
The flight took off at 6.15 a.m. from Bangalore to land in Delhi at 8.50 a.m.
SpiceJet's first flights of the day was also operated by all-women crew, an official in Mumbai said.
The all-women operations included pilots, co-pilots, in-flight crew, staff at check-in counters, engineers and security, a company spokesperson said.
It began from around 5 am onwards with SpiceJet's Boeing B-737 fleet taking off from Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru; its Bombardier Q-400 fleet of aircrafts took to the skies from New Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai.
Lending a personal touch to the celebrations, the airline staff gifted pink roses to women travellers on all the flights.
At Air Traffic Control - Mumbai, Women controllers will take full charge of the air traffic control (ATC) tower on Friday morning to facilitate take-offs and landings at Mumbai airport.
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