Employees forgo non-veg to help cut costs for Air India

New Delhi: Air India employees in Delhi have offered to turn vegetarian — as their bit to keep the airline afloat. The AI canteen at Delhi airport caters to between 700 and 1,100 employees daily where a veg thali comes for Rs 2.50.
Chicken is served thrice a week and the two-piece dish plus the veg thali hikes the price to a princely Rs 3.50. AI spends about Rs 20 lakh a month through its subsidiary, Hotel Corporation, which runs the five-star Centaur for its employees here — while the revenue adds up to barely a couple of lakhs, going veg would save up to Rs 3 lakh.
"We can't allow the thali price to be raised. So to cut cost on canteen front, we have proposed going veg....," AI union leader V J Deka said. IA canteens in Delhi — where 100 kg of chicken was consumed every week — and Chennai turned vegetarian on March 23, 2004. In Delhi, a thali costs Rs 10. And days later, on April 1, 2004, IA hiked thali prices in the union's bastion at Kolkata. A veg thali's price there went up from about Re 1 to Rs 7.50.
20/10/09 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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