Meet the all-women crew: Air India's women pilots flying high, literally

Percentage of women employee in primary role in airlines remains at a mere 3 per cent

Captain Trisha Mohan might be the only woman to fly the jumbo Boeing 747 aircraft, but she still finds it funny when the air traffic control calls her “ sir.”

“I find it amusing but it doesn’t stay on mind, at that moment it’s only the operations that matter,” says Captain Mohan who has been flying for 20 years with Air India.

Captain Mohan’s case points to the fact that aviation remains a very male dominated world even 100 years after the Wright brothers took their first flight. So much so that, that percentage of women employee in primary role