Air India Operates Multiple All-Women-Managed Flights On International Women's Day | Check Details
Tata-owned Air India also introduces the #HerMatters initiative to assist its women employees navigate critical life events, both on their professional and personal fronts, for a better work-life balance.
Marking the International Women’s Day, Air India on Saturday operated a total of 18 international and domestic flights managed by all-women teams across functions in the air and on ground. The Tata group-owned airline also introduced the #HerMatters initiative to assist its women employees navigate critical life events, both on their professional and personal fronts, for a better work-life balance.
“In resonance with #AccelerateAction, the theme of International Women’s Day 2025, the Air India group took to the skies with flights managed by all-women teams across functions in the air and on ground, while also unveiling a series of initiatives for women employees and special offers for women passengers," Air India said in a statement.
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In all, 18 flights operated by Air India and Air India Express on select international and domestic routes, were managed by all-women teams that included pilots, cabin crew, crew roster planning analysts scheduling duties for the all-women crew onboard, flight dispatchers and a meteorologist planning and monitoring flights from departure to arrival, crew controllers tracking all crew ensuring compliance with flight duty time and rest requirements and a female operations control duty manager overseeing Air India’s day of operation, the airline added.
Destinations to which these flights were operated included Melbourne, the longest amongst them, London Heathrow, Dammam, Muscat, Ras Al Khaimah, Abu Dhabi, Varanasi, Pune, Visakhapatnam, Kolkata, Bagdogra, Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada and Guwahati, it said.
At an organisational level, Air India has launched the #HerMatters initiative to assist its women employees navigate critical life events, both on their professional and personal fronts, for a better work-life balance.
Air India group has also decided to organise sessions on careers in aviation at girls’ schools in the National Capital Region of Delhi to inspire young women to pursue careers in aviation.
Exclusive Offers For Women Passengers
Air India also offered special promotions and benefits from 1-8 March 2025, which included fare discounts for bookings with at least one woman in the PNR, and 5 per cent discount on gift card purchases, enabling and encouraging women to take charge of their travel.
Campbell Wilson, chief executive officer & managing director of Air India and chairman of Air India Express, said, “At Air India group, we take pride in the fact that women leading from the front is a norm rather than an exception. India leads the world in the number of women commercial pilots and Air India group is significantly contributing to this achievement."
At Air India, women make 46 per cent of the total workforce, 16 per cent of pilots, which is almost three times the global average, 21 per cent of staff in ground services, 27 per cent in finance and 22 per cent in the digital and technology division, and all these numbers have grown significantly since Air India’s return to the Tata group, according to Air India’s statement.
Air India is also a signatory to IATA’s #25by2025 initiative and aims at enhancing women at mid and senior levels.
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