BANGALORE:

If you’re likely to fly by the AI 804Bangalore to Delhi today, you’re privileged. An all-woman crew flight will be flying you. Bangalore-based Capt V Roopa will be in command, with Capt. Niranjana Ashok as co-pilot. The cabin crew will also be Bangalore-based Mohita Ponnappa, Sneha Annagiri, Shruthi Chowdhury and Rituparna Dasgupta. The same crew will return to Bangalore on AI 506.

Air India will operate 11 all-woman crew flights across domestic and international stations. These flights will also be mark 100 years of civil aviation in India. In December 1985, Air India operated the first all-woman crew flight in the world from Kolkata to Silchar on a Fokker Friendship F-27 aircraft.

Air India honours women by operating such flights on March 8. It will, for the second year running, operate an Ultra-Long Haul Flight from Delhi toToronto with a woman commander at the controls.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / Jayashree Nandi / TNN / Mar 08th, 2011