Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Air India operates (almost) all-female flights

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 05:00 — Anonymous by Zoe Li, Hong Kong EditorAir 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.read more

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