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State Run Carrier AI Operates’World’s Longest All-Women Flight:Women’s Day

[New Delhi]State Run Carrier Air India Operates ‘World’s Longest All-Women Flight’:Women’s Day
National carrier Air India today said it flew the “world’s longest” all-women operated and supported flight from the national capital to San Francisco.The National carrier has about 3,800 women employees, including pilots, cabin crew, engineers, technicians, doctors, security personnel and executives
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.
The non-stop Delhi-San Francisco flight took off from Delhi on March 6.
Air India CMD Ashwani Lohani said it was a historic flight and “the longest operated by all-women crew”. “The airline has immense respect for women and it is a symbol of women empowerment,”
The flight was under the command of Kshamta Bajpayee and Shubhangi Singh, along with First Officers Ramya Kirti Gupta and Amrit Namdhari.