Air India announced that it made the first flight in the world with an exclusively female crew.
A Boeing 777 of India's national carrier flew from New Delhi to San Francisco over the Pacific Ocean, traveling 15.300 kilometers and then returning flying over the Atlantic.
Apart from the female pilots and the female cabin crew, all the ground crew who worked on the flight - security inspectors, engineers, air traffic controllers - were women.
Governors Sunita Narula, Khamtra Bajpai, Indira Sikh and Gunjan Agarwal took turns in the cockpit as they shared the 15,5-hour journey.
The cabin crew was led by flight attendants Sima Baberual and Nisrin Bandulwala.
The airline announced that it has already contacted the Guinness Book of Records to record the flight.
This was not the first initiative of the company aimed at promoting gender equality.
In January it announced that on all its domestic flights there would be purely female seats for women traveling alone. The decision came after a wave of complaints of sexual harassment on Air India flights.
