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Gurgaon, 8th March: SpiceJet celebrates International Women’s Day by
operating 16 all-women crew flights across India and abroad.
The first such all-women crew Bombardier Q400 flight, SG 1, took-off from Chennai at
0040 hours bound for Colombo, under the command of Captain Aarti Pushpala, Cabin
crew-in-charge Sheeba Singh, and their all-woman crew. The first Boeing 737 flight, SG
401, operated from Mumbai to Hyderabad at 0505 hours, under the command of Captain
Bhakti Bagaria, Cabin crew-in-charge Nazya Parveen, and their all-women crew. These two
flights are being followed by 14 additional all-women crew flights throughout the day.
The morning shift of SpiceJet’s Flight Support Centre, the operational nerve centre of
the airline, was also handled by an all-women team led by Aditi Chauhan.
In another unique initiative undertaken to celebrate the spirit of womanhood, the
airline today handed over its official twitter handle to four of its selected women
staff. The staff including two Captains Anushree Varma and Shriya Srivastava, and two
Cabin crew members Suranjana Charaborty and Akansha Srivastava, are engaging with the
Twitterverse in a live interactive chat sessions throughout the day, answering
questions about women in aviation.
Mr. Sanjiv Kapoor, COO, SpiceJet Ltd., said “While flights operated by
all-women crew is not just a Women’s Day event for SpiceJet- they occur regularly
throughout the year - on the occasion of Women’s Day we especially celebrate the role
and contribution of the wonderful and inspirational women at SpiceJet. Women at
SpiceJet are integral to in all aspects of the airline, be it pilots, cabin crew,
sales, engineering, flight support centre, finance, sales, marketing, IT, HR, PR,
ground staff, or rostering”. “SpiceJet is also proud to have one of the highest
proportions of women pilots of any airline in the world. We salute all women on the
occasion of International Women’s Day, as we do each and every day”, he concluded.
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