{"id":12259,"date":"2022-06-21T21:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T12:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/?p=12259"},"modified":"2022-10-11T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T09:31:00","slug":"captain-zoya-the-flyer-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/captain-zoya-the-flyer-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Zoya &#8211; The Flyer Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/captainzoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Zoya.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Zoya.png 473w, https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Zoya-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Zoya-287x337.png 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In all these years, nothing has reached easy to me,&#8221; says Zoya Agarwal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am honored to even just by writing about her. She is such a sport that people might not even expect to be. Her works are so inspirational that words won&#8217;t be enough for it to express.<\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/captainzoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Captain Zoya Agarwal<\/a>, an Indian Commercial Pilot that has flown for Air India.<\/p>\n<h2>Zoya&#8217;s Journey<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/captainzoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Captain-Zoya-Agarwal.jpeg\" alt=\"See the source image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After topping her college graduation, she was determined for her path and therefore asked her father to permit her to follow her childhood dream of becoming a pilot. Even while the packed schedule of three years of graduation, she used her spare time running after her college hours for aviation courses in different parts of her city.&#8221; Her father Hesitantly acquiesced to take a loan to pay for my practice. I put my heart and soul into it and excelled,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Even though she had to wait for about two years for the job opportunity and then came a chance in the form of Air India&#8217;s vacancy for seven aviators, Ms. Agarwal contested against 3,000 others. She drove to arise with an offer letter in hand. The journey was full of hard work &amp; struggles; she also remembers that her father had a heart attack four days before her interview round. Zoya reluctantly agreed to locomote to Mumbai and take her exam at his behest. &#8220;There, she cleared all the rounds and entered Air India as a First Officer! In 2004, As she flew my first flight to Dubai, she said, &#8220;I&#8217;d finally touched the stars!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After that, there was no pivoting back course from the pilot. She paid\u00a0off her father&#8217;s loans and purchased diamond earrings for her mother.<\/p>\n<h2>Zoya&#8217;s Inspirational Stories<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/captainzoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12281 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/632d6690-5487-11eb-97ff-f4969703b1e9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/632d6690-5487-11eb-97ff-f4969703b1e9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/632d6690-5487-11eb-97ff-f4969703b1e9-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/632d6690-5487-11eb-97ff-f4969703b1e9-435x300.jpg 435w, https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/632d6690-5487-11eb-97ff-f4969703b1e9-489x337.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.creatorshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/632d6690-5487-11eb-97ff-f4969703b1e9-600x413.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was 1st Woman Commander to pilot Air India&#8217;s first Boeing 777 aircraft over the Hindu Kush mountain range.<\/p>\n<p>As a preventive extent during the COVID-19 pandemic times, the Government of India prompted Vande Bharat Mission in May 2020 to vacate approximately 14,800 Indians from twelve different countries on sixty-four Air India aviation. Agarwal got this golden opportunity &amp; was chosen to co-pilot the initial repatriation flying by the airline.<\/p>\n<p>She strives to inspire young girls and youth by encouraging them on various fora as the fate of this world to be the transformation-developers of tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>She enunciates: &#8220;My mission is to encourage anyone who confronts self-doubts to stretch their wings and make their dreams a living reality!<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Agarwal commanded an all-woman crew making the inaugural flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru a colossal triumph. She evolved as the 1st Woman Commander to fly over the North pole on one of the world&#8217;s lengthiest air routes in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations picked Agarwal as its representative spokesperson for Generation Equality in late 2021. 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