Try out non-veg, Air India tells vegetarian passengers

Mumbai: Beware of flying the national carrier Air India (AI) if you are a vegetarian. This being the Shravan period when many Indians refrain from non-vegetarian food, instead of stocking up enough vegetarian meals, the airline chose a tasteless approach when its airhostess recently asked two Mumbai-bound vegetarian flyers to 'try out' the non-veg fare since the veggie meals had run out, leaving the veg-since-birth passengers fuming.
On July 27, Prakash Padikkal, 52, a businessman, and his friend Ramesh Agarwal, 55, a social worker from Mumbai, were returning from Delhi by Air India's flight IC 863.
"...the airhostess came to us enquiring about our meal of choice. We told her we would like vegetarian food," said Padikkal.
After 10 minutes, the airhostess returned to ask passengers about their food preference. "When we repeated our choice, she said they were short of vegetarian food and whether we would like to try non-veg," said Agarwal. "This was quite surprising and even infuriating to us as we are vegetarians since birth," he fumed. However, the AI spokesperson said that there was no specific request by the passenger for vegetarian food at the time of booking.
31/07/09 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis

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