{"id":86220,"date":"2019-03-08T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T23:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86220"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T23:06:39","slug":"sri-lankas-national-air-carrier-operates-first-all-female-crew-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/08\/sri-lankas-national-air-carrier-operates-first-all-female-crew-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s national air carrier operates first all female crew flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jeg_featured featured_image\">\n<h2 class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy\">Colombo, March 8 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s national air carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines, operated its first all female crew flight from Colombo to Singapore and back on Friday to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day, the airline said in a statement.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The UL306 flight took off from Colombo\u2019s Bandaranaike International Airport on Friday morning carrying over 170 passengers on board.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-jnews-1140x570 size-jnews-1140x570 wp-post-image lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sri-Lankan-airlines.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sri-Lankan-airlines.jpg 530w, https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sri-Lankan-airlines-120x70.jpg 120w, https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sri-Lankan-airlines-300x175.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s national air carrier operates first all female crew flight\" width=\"530\" height=\"310\" data-src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sri-Lankan-airlines.jpg\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sri-Lankan-airlines.jpg 530w, https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sri-Lankan-airlines-120x70.jpg 120w, https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sri-Lankan-airlines-300x175.jpg 300w\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The flight landed back in Colombo from Singapore on Friday afternoon.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The flight was piloted by Captain Simran Ghumman and First Officer Maneesha Nambuge.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sri Lanka held several events to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day including launching an all female compartment in passenger trains.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 8 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s national air carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines, operated its first all female crew flight from Colombo to Singapore and back on Friday to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day, the airline said in a statement. The UL306 flight took off from Colombo\u2019s Bandaranaike International Airport on Friday morning carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}