EP 1 - Meet Captain Zoya Agarwal who went from being an avid stargazer to making history as a pilot

Air India’s Captain Zoya Agarwal has scripted history as the first woman to fly the Boeing-777 and more recently, the longest commercial flight in the world. Air India commander Zoya Aggarwal and her all-woman cockpit crew recently scripted history by operating the world’s longest commercial flight that crossed the North Pole at 34,000 feet in the sky. With 250 passengers on board, the crew of four women captains in the cockpit had the world tracking their every movement in the sky. Women’s empowerment is very close to Zoya’s heart. She says, “Pretty much everywhere in the world women are not treated equally – there is discrimination against women regarding salaries and positions with no explicable reason.”  Read more at: https://yourstory.com/herstory/2021/02/captain-zoya-agarwal-air-india-women-pilot Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was originally reported by Tenzin Norzom on 2nd Feb 2021 with edits by Rekha Balakrishnan. Hosted by Julius Sharma!