Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Air India operates (almost) all-female flights

by Zoe Li, Hong Kong Editor

Air India will be flying with an all-female crew on selected flights today.

The stunt is in the name of International Women's Day and includes flights to London, Newark, Singapore, Doha and Bahrain.

But it isn't quite the in-flight sorority house our juvenile minds are imagining.

Indian law ordains that flights on which alcohol will be served must have male pursers on board. These "all-female" flights will thus have two male pursers amongst the otherwise female-only crew.

“All activities for the operation of these flights would be done by women to make it a historic event,” an Air India spokesperson told The Hindustan Times.

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Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/Z5ypwS1uNiI/air-india-operates-almost-all-female-flights-868673

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