No meals in flights with duration of less than two hours from today

Mangalore Today News Network / News18

New Delhi, April 15, 2021:      Flights that have a duration of under two hours will not be serving any in-flight meals from today. This has been done in order to help curb the Coronavirus spread and this directive, which comes into action from today, was given by the Civil Aviation Ministry on Monday. When scheduled domestic flights were resumed on May 25 after coronavirus lockdown last year, the ministry had allowed the airlines to serve in-flight meals under certain conditions.

 

Modifying the previous order, the ministry’s fresh directive said: “The airlines, operating flights on domestic sectors, may provide meals services on board, where the in-flight duration is two hours or more.” The ministry stated it has decided to review the on-board meal services in domestic flights considering “the increasing threat of COVID-19 and its variants”.

However, flights with a duration of over two hours will continue to serve food albeit in disposable cutlery and are only allowed to serve pre-packed food.