A flying adieu from a pilot daughter to her mother who was an air hostess

An Air India air hostess who wanted to take off her last flight with her daughter who is a pilot. Air hostess Pooja Chinchankar wanted her last flight to be piloted by her daughter Ashrrita Chinchankar which was a dream come true. Her daughter was very happy and flooded with emotions as she was able to fulfill her mother’s wish on her last working day.

Ashrrita had this privilege of piloting her mother’s last flight as an air hostess with Air India from Mumbai to Bengaluru. Her tweet about this privilege was massively appreciated and broke the internet with first five hours of tweet. Ashrrita wrote in her tweet that “It was my mom’s dream to have me pilot her last flight as an Air Hostess with Air India 🙂 As she retires after her glorious 38 years of service, I will be carrying on with her legacy.” She wrote this along with a smiling picture of her mother and her flight crew.

So happy and honoured to be able to pilot the one flight that mattered. It was my mom’s dream to have me pilot her last flight as an Air Hostess with @airindiain 🙂 As she retires after her glorious 38 years of service, I will be carrying on with her legacy ? #grateful #proud pic.twitter.com/zcUTNCENzj

— Ashrrita (@caramelwings) July 31, 2018

This touching tweet has been showered with 9,000 ‘likes’ and thousands of comments since being shared online. Several have commented to express how proud they feel regarding two women’s touching story while others have comments to wish both of them. Even Air India, businessman Harsh Goenka and Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Jayant Sinha retweeted the tweet.

#FlyAI : @caramelwings Our heartfelt wishes to your mother and you for this special flight when she passes the baton on to you to have the privilege of serving our passengers with dedication. The legacy lives on. https://t.co/AxJiFllPbv

— Air India (@airindiain) July 31, 2018

An Air India air hostess of 40 years wanted her last flight before retirement to be piloted by her daughter Ashrrita Chinchankar. This came true yesterday. Passengers clapped, the staff cheered. Real life dreams are made by stories like this. #HelloHappiness pic.twitter.com/HXiKSWOcCb

— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) August 1, 2018

A daughter’s priceless gift to her mother.

Dreams took flight as First Officer Ashrrita piloted her Air Hostess mother’s farewell flight who retires after 38 years of service with @airindiain. ✈‍?‍✈

Congratulations to the mother-daughter duo.?‍?https://t.co/hNdmNNcZCU

— Jayant Sinha (@jayantsinha) August 1, 2018

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How affectionate is this moment where a daughter and a mother has set an ideal example for today’s world. Ashrrita also shared a video in which her mum is seen receiving warm goodbye from the cabin crew and passengers on her last flight:

For all of you who asked 🙂 that’s mom on her last flight as an operating cabin crew for @airindiain what a lovely day and what amazing passengers! So many best wishes and hugs ♥️ of course I was in the flight deck 🙂 #proud #grateful pic.twitter.com/eUL3Og4EBr

— Ashrrita (@caramelwings) July 31, 2018

The moment deserves appreciation because it was the planned flight but it was a coincidence that Ashrrita was flying the aircraft which was her mother’s farewell flight.

When her mother Pooja Chinchankar was asked by her crew members what are her retirement plans that time she expressed she wants to travel for few months and then decide for what to do next.

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