Air India to stop non-veg meals in domestic flights of 61 to 90 minutes

Air India has taken a decision to stop serving non-veg meals in domestic flights of 61 to 90 minutes duration. This will be effective from 2016 New Year's Day, the airline would serve only vegetarian food on its short range domestic flights.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 26 December 2015.
This decision has been conveyed to its staff through a circular, dated December 23 and signed by Captain D X Pais, general manager of Air India. It is addressed to the cabin crew and it indicates that only Indian vegetarian hot meals will be provided in economy class on domestic sector of flights with duration between 61 and 90 minutes, from January 1, 2016.

The reason is that the flights with 61-90 minutes duration give them a window of 30-40 minutes to serve passengers. Explaining this, the argument put forward is that during take-off and touch down, there is no scope for any service as the galley equipment has to remain fastened. In the balance time available for service, it is impossible to juggle passenger choices of meals - while a non-vegetarian can have a vegetarian meal, it is not same the other way round. However, the issue is not so simple and the national carrier's move has invariably raised many an eyebrow.
Moreover, tea and coffee would not be there on flights that fly during lunch and dinner time.
The new pruned menu for flights of less than 60 minutes will not have any hot meals but, only vegetarian refreshments.

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