New Delhi: Air India has decided not to serve Non-Vegetarian food from January 1st, 2016 in a flight less than 90 minutes duration. The airline also decided to remove tea and coffee from the list of items that ill be served.

Till now Air India used to serve only sandwiches with cakes on board which are both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. However, the airline claims that serving for 150 odd passengers with 2 crew members is being difficult on a 90-minute flight. Passengers have different requests and it is being difficult for the crew to cater to their needs.

A circular was issued by Air India which said, “It has been proposed and decided to provide all Indian vegetarian hot meal food in economy class on all domestic sector flights between 60 and 90 minutes duration from 1 January 2016”.

Many airline analysts claimed that this move is a bad practice in the industry as a lot of other airlines across the world take passenger opinions through surveys and then come to a conclusion to modify dining.

A travel industry expert told reporters that “Airlines all over the world would carry out customer surveys before taking such decisions. Unfortunately, Air India does not follow such practices. This decision to discontinue non-vegetarian food on these non-metro flights is just one-sided”.