Yesterday, Air India announced dropping off non-vegetarian food from its menu for economy passengers in order to cut costs. Vistara took a dig at the airlines saying that it leaves the choice of vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals to its flyers and tweeted with the image shown below:-
In a cost-cutting move, loss-laden Air India has stopped serving non-vegetarian meals to economy class passengers of its domestic flights. However, international flights will continue getting non-veg food. A senior official from Air India said, “We implemented this move about two weeks back. It is expected to save us ₹7-8 crore annually”.
Air India spokesman GP Rao said, “Air India has taken conscious decision not to have the non-vegetarian meal in economy class on its domestic flights to reduce wastage, reduce cost and improve catering service”.
Interestingly the Tatas who jointly own Vistara along with Singapore Airlines, was the first to show interest in buying Air India after the government said it would like to divest its stake in the ailing airline.