All the four pilots required to operate the 14-hour flight of a Boeing B777-200 aircraft on the Mumbai-JFK sector on March 8 will be women. They will be supported by an all-women team of cabin crew and ground staff of Air India, said an Air India release issued here on Saturday. It added that the flight commanders, Captain Sunita and Captain Rashmi Mira-nda, and First Officers, Captain Swati Rawal and Captain Neha, would operate the flight, while Harpr-eet A. De Singh, Head-QMS, would carry out line observation safety audit.
Air India added that the flight would be dispatched by Nandita Deshpande and the load and trim sheet would be prepared by Ferzin Kuruvilla on March 8. Also, the national carrier’s all-women cockpit crews would operate several international and domestic flights on that day. According to the release, other international flights to be operated by women cockpit crew include the Hyderabad-Dammam-Chennai and Chennai-Colombo-Chennai sectors.
Age Correspondent