Slurp! Air India to serve hot vegetarian meals soon!

In a bid to attract more passengers to the debt-ridden Air India, Ministry of Civil Aviation has now decided to launch in-flight meals on its short halt flights. The national carrier will now serve hot vegetarian food on flights with duration of 60 to 90 minutes.

"It has been misinterpreted. The real truth is that in short halt flights where the time span is between 60-90 minutes, we used to serve sandwiches and snacks, which used to be vegetarian. Only thing was that there was a long demand that there should be some hot food as well," said Civil Aviation Minister Mahesh Sharma.

He further added, “As a process of that we have started hot foods. In the long duration flights of more than 90 minutes, everything will remain same. Only part is that we have upgraded the issues as the new year is coming, and therefore some innovations have to be there. So, there is no change in the previous orders. Only thing is that some up-gradation has been put. Non-vegetarian food was earlier not there and at present is also not there.”

Nevertheless, A.Lohani, chairman and managing director (CMD) of Air India, told ANI that currently, the national carrier provides cold vegetarian snacks on 1hour to 1: 30 minutes flights.

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