Mangaluru: Women are truly going places and now an all women Air India Express flight took off to Dammam from Mangaluru.
In a unique celebration of Women’s Day, Air India sent Air India Express flight no IX885 from Mangaluru International Airport at 5.05 pm on Tuesday, March 8 after the crew cut a cake at the airport.

Commander captain Taniya Anand, co-pilot Yuvika Sandhoo and cabin crew in-charge Deepa Natarajan, CC Neha Bijoria, CC Shalini Kinkar and CC Chinju Chandran were the crew.

Air India Express has 856 staff, out of which 360 are female employees, constituting 42% of the total Air India Express work force. Out of these, 48 women are pilots, 257 are air hostesses, 8 engineering personnel and company secretary and some are staff of the communications department, read a release from Air India Express, which added that the deputy chief of commercial department of Air India Express and two out of four of its board members are women.