Four Air India captains are a part of the first all-woman team of pilots in India to command a direct commercial flight halfway across the globe... Literally.
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00:00Today is the day we create world history by not only flying the route over the North Pole,
00:05by having all women pilots who successfully did it.
00:08It was quite an exciting experience since you know it's never been done before.
00:12Air India has the most number, the maximum number of lady pilots in this world.
01:00Today is the day we create world history by not only flying the route over the North Pole,
01:16by having all women pilots who successfully did it.
01:20It is also amongst one of the world's longest flights.
01:23We are extremely happy and proud to be part of it.
01:26And we are extremely thrilled that our government,
01:29our airline has instilled this trust in us and we all did it together as a team.
01:56Air India has always been working to get our passengers back home
02:13as safely as possible and obviously as soon as possible too.
02:18We save right from 2,000 kgs to about 10,000 kgs on this routing.
02:23This is a special routing which we're trying to do over the polar region
02:27as close to the North Pole as possible and today that's what we did.
02:40So it's quite an exciting experience since you know it's never been done before.
02:45So there's a lot of hard work that's gone into the flight.
02:48Actually we have been preparing for it and the entire team of Air India
02:51has put in a lot of effort to put this together.
02:54But it was quite an exciting experience I think for all of us.