All female cabin crew take off from San Francisco to Bangalore, Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted.
Bangalore:
An all-female cabin crew set out on a historic journey, operating Air India’s inaugural San Francisco-Bengaluru flight, crossing the North Pole and taking the Atlantic route to reach the capital of Karnataka on the other side of the world.
Flight number AI176 left San Francisco on Saturday at 8.30pm (local time) and would arrive in Bengaluru at 3.45am on Monday, according to Air India sources.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted: “Way to go girls! Professional, skilled and confident all female cabin crew take off from San Francisco to Bangalore on @ airindiain’s flight to fly over the North Pole. Our Nari Shakti achieves a historic first. “
Way to go girls!
Professional, skilled and confident, the female cabin crew takes off from San Francisco to Bangalore in @airindiainFlight to fly over the North Pole.
Our Nari Shakti achieves a historic first. pic.twitter.com/X46cs73dQu– Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) January 10, 2021
Air India has said that this will be the longest commercial flight in the world operated by it or any other airline in India.
Total flight time on this route will be over 17 hours depending on wind speed on that particular day, he had said in a statement on the eve of the historic flight.
#FlyAI : AI 176 (San Francisco to Bengaluru) enters the Polar Region at an altitude of 32000 feet and at a speed of 464 knots / 860 kmph, the frozen landscape is illuminated by the magical “Northern Lights”. pic.twitter.com/Hs4bAyHsCa
– Air India (@airindiain) January 10, 2021
The crew members are: Captain Zoya Aggarwal, Captain Papagari Thanmai, Captain Akansha Sonaware, and Captain Shivani Manhas.
Air India also expressed its jubilation when it tweeted: “Imagine this: -All female cabin crew. -Longest flight to India. -Crossing the North Pole. It’s here and it’s happening! Records broken. Story in the making by AI176 from @flySFO to @ BLRAirport. AI 176 sails at 30,000 feet. “
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