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Mexican carrier marks Women's Day with all-female-crew flights

Xinhua, March 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

Mexican airline Aeromexico Tuesday celebrated the International Women's Day with nine flights staffed by women only.

The airline said the flights headed to not only national destinations -- Puerto Vallarta and Monterrey, but also international destinations including New York, Tokyo, Madrid, Montreal, Houston, Lima and Guatemala City.

"Women in our company have definitely contributed to make us Mexico's largest airline," said Sergio Allard, the company's director of Talent and Institutional Relations.

The initiative of all-female-crew flights was first launched on March 8 last year, which saw "the first transcontinental flight in the history of aviation with only women pilots and flight attendants on board," the airline said.

"Through such events we succeed in getting more women to become interested in joining this industry," Captain Veronica Cervantes Zuniga, who has been flying for more than 34 years and was piloting the flight to Madrid, was quoted by Mexican transportation trade website T21 as saying. Endi