{"id":394464,"date":"2021-01-12T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394464"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:01:40","slug":"flown-by-4-women-pilots-air-indias-longest-direct-route-sfo-blr-polar-route-flight-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flown-by-4-women-pilots-air-indias-longest-direct-route-sfo-blr-polar-route-flight-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Flown by 4 women pilots, Air India&#8217;s longest direct route SFO-BLR polar route flight takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The inaugural flight of Air India&#8217;s longest direct route &#8212; San Francisco (SFO) &#8211; Bengaluru (BLR) with four women pilots has taken off on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The four &#8212; Captains Zoya Aggarwal, Papagari Thanmai, Akansha Sonaware and Shivani Manhas &#8212; became the first all-women crew to operate a flight over the North Pole on their way to BLR. They are operating a Boeing 777 200 (long range or LR) VT-ALG &#8212; named &#8216;Kerala&#8217;. The SFO airport is wearing the colours of the Indian flag to celebrate this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And Countdown begins! Minutes away from take off of our nonstop flight frm San Fransisco &#8211; Bengaluru. Air India scripted history as all women cockpit crew rolls out AI176 on its record-making around the world voyage, possibly charting the Polar route from SFO to BLR,&#8221; AI Tweeted Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The inaugural flight of Air India&#8217;s longest direct route &#8212; San Francisco (SFO) &#8211; Bengaluru (BLR) with four women pilots has taken off on Sunday morning. The four &#8212; Captains Zoya Aggarwal, Papagari Thanmai, Akansha Sonaware and Shivani Manhas &#8212; became the first all-women crew to operate a flight over the North Pole on their way to BLR. They are operating a Boeing 777 200 (long range or LR) VT-ALG &#8212; named &#8216;Kerala&#8217;. The SFO airport is wearing the colours of the Indian flag to celebrate this occasion. &#8220;And Countdown begins! Minutes away from take off of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}