Jet Airways has narrowed down its list of meal preferences on offer for domestic passengers from 23 to a meager seven. That makes it the only full-service airline in India to leave slim pickings for passengers who suffer from food allergies.
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A Jet Airways spokesperson said: "Going by trends we have seen certain special meal options have a higher consumption pattern than others on our domestic flights. While finalising our list of special meals available to our domestic flyers, we have ensured meal options like the fruit platter to be included to serve guests requesting bland food or gluten free meals.
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The special meals served on board Jet Airways' domestic flights are Child Meal/Baby Meal/ Jain Meal/Diabetic Meal/Fruit Platter, and all- time popular vegetarian and non-vegetarian Indian meals.''
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But currently the options available for domestic flights were vegetarian/non-vegetarian, Jain, diabetics vegetarian/non-vegetarian, fruit platter and Muslim.
Last month national carrier Air India, in a cost-cutting move, stopped serving non-vegetarian meals to its economy class passengers. Unlike Jet though, AI domestic passengers with dietary restrictions can still opt from a list of 15 special meal options which includes children, vegan, Jain, gluten-free, low-calorie, lacto-ovo, raw, Oriental, Kosher, etc.
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The changes made by AI and Jet has made Vistara the only full-service carrier in India to offer a wide variety of meal choices to both economy and premium class passengers. Vistara, like AI, offers a long list of special meal options.