For Women's Day, Air India flies world's longest all-women flight

March 07, 2016 18:08

National carrier Air India said it flew the "world's longest" all-women operated and supported flight from the national capital to San Francisco.

The flight, which traveled a distance of around 14,500 kilo metre 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 New Delhi on March 6.

The flight was under the command of Kshamta Bajpayee and Shubhangi Singh, along with First Officers Ramya Kirti Gupta and Amrit Namdhari.

The carrier has about 3,800 women employees, including pilots, cabin crew, engineers, technicians, doctors, security personnel and executives.

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