New Delhi: The Air India has decided to serve only vegetarian food for the passengers of its economy class on flights upto 90 minutes duration. The government-run Air India will not serve non-vegetarian food from January 1, 2016.
The Air India issued a circular saying that as of now, they serve sandwich and cake for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians on its flights for up to 90 minutes of duration and this will be discontinued from January 1, 2016. Instead, it will be replaced with all vegetarian hot meal. The Air India also decided to struck off both coffee and tea from the menu of its lunch and dinner.
Issued last week, the circular also said, “It has been decided to provide all Indian vegetarian hot meals in economy class on all domestic sector flights between 61 and 90 minutes duration from January 1, 2016.”
According to a statement, it said that provides cold vegetarian snacks on flights of 61 to 90 minutes flights duration. The statement also added, “Air India will now be serving proper hot vegetarian meals on these 60 to 90 minutes flights.There will be a review after obtaining passengers’ feedback. On flights exceeding 90 minutes, the present choice of veg and non-veg meals will continue.”
