New Delhi: Air India on Wednesday asked cabin crew and pilots to finalise meal scheduling, basically what the latter want and when, before operating flights and limit visits by the former to cockpit during flight for this reason. While restricting pilots from getting outside food, say a home-cooked meal, for consumption inflight is not possible, AI is contemplating asking them not to seek crew help in any way like heating up the meal for consuming the same. These moves come after a spat between a pilot and flight purser reportedly on the issue of washing a tiffin box that the captain had got from home when he finished his meal.
“Cabin crew is for the comfort and safety of passengers. We have asked for meal scheduling to be decided before flight so that accordingly the same can be served to pilots inflight. Also the number of visits by cabin crew to cockpits should be as per laid down norms and not more than that. Calling crew members time and again to cockpit for some reason or the other comes in way of passenger service,” said a senior official.
A senior cabin crew member said: “AI pilots often bring home tiffin boxes on board and ask crew to heat and serve that meal. There are often requests from pilots like asking crew to chop onion, roast almonds and cashews in honey and make cheese toasts and fruit salad. All this must stop as cabin crew are on board for passenger service and safety and are not personal cooks of pilots. On the other hand, pilots of private Indian airlines do not do this. Why so much drama in AI?”
20/06/19 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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“Cabin crew is for the comfort and safety of passengers. We have asked for meal scheduling to be decided before flight so that accordingly the same can be served to pilots inflight. Also the number of visits by cabin crew to cockpits should be as per laid down norms and not more than that. Calling crew members time and again to cockpit for some reason or the other comes in way of passenger service,” said a senior official.
A senior cabin crew member said: “AI pilots often bring home tiffin boxes on board and ask crew to heat and serve that meal. There are often requests from pilots like asking crew to chop onion, roast almonds and cashews in honey and make cheese toasts and fruit salad. All this must stop as cabin crew are on board for passenger service and safety and are not personal cooks of pilots. On the other hand, pilots of private Indian airlines do not do this. Why so much drama in AI?”
20/06/19 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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