An all-women cockpit crew will fly into Indian aviation history on Saturday when it operates the inaugural San Francisco-Bengaluru flight, going over the North Pole and taking the Atlantic route to reach the Karnataka capital at the other end of the world
Capt Thanmai
New Delhi:
This will be the longest commercial flight in the world to be operated by Air India or any other airline in India
The direct distance between the two cities at opposite ends of the world is 13,993 km with a time zone change of around 13.5 hours
Total flight time will be of more than 17 hours depending on the wind speed
Capt Zoya Aggarwal, Capt Papagari Thanmai, Capt Akansha Sonaware & Capt Shivani Manhas will operate the flight
Flight AI176 will leave San Francisco at 8.30 pm (local time) on Saturday and land at the Kempegowda International Airport at 3.45 am (local time) on Monday
Captain Aggarwal has flown more than 8000 hours and has command experience in a B-777 aircraft of more than 10 years and more than 2,500 flying hours
AI plans to start non-stop service between Hyderabad and Chicago from January 15
The zflight will operate with a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft VT ALG with a seating capacity of 238 seats including 8 First Class, 35 Business Class, 195 Economy class configuration besides four cockpit and 12 cabin crew
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