Air India's all-women crew makes history

New Delhi: Ahead of International Women’s Day that falls on March 8, Air India said it set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely by women, according to news agency reports.

Air India said its Boeing 777 commercial flight manned by two of its lady-pilots flew from New Delhi to San Francisco and back again with an all-women crew last week, the first time such a flight has circumnavigated the globe. One flight was over the Pacific while the other was over the Atlantic thus circumnavigating the globe. Air India has apparently applied to the Guinness World Records to validate the claim.

“Everyone involved in the flight operation — from pilots to check-in staff to cabin crew — were from our female staff,” Air India spokesman G.P. Rao was quoted as telling news agencies.