Air India has instructed its pilots to not order special meals for themselves during the flights as they are required to adhere to a \u201cmeal schedule laid down by the company\u201d, according to an internal communication of the national carrier.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been brought to the notice of the undersigned that flight crew are ordering special meal\/s which are against the said rules,\u201d Amitabh Singh, Director Operations, Air India, said in an e-mail to pilots on Wednesday. \u201cThe only crew, who for medical reasons, may order for special meals viz. food recommended by the doctor,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
According to a senior airline official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the pilots have been found to be ordering special meals for themselves such as burgers and soups, which ultimately increase the airline\u2019s food expenses and disturbs the food management.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrew should adhere to the meal schedules laid down by the company and should not authorise meal uplift on their own,\u201d Singh wrote in his e-mail.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn light of the above, all cockpit crew are instructed not to order special meals RPT not to order special meals as and when operating a flight\/SOD (Staff on Duty) movement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Air India has instructed its pilots to not order special meals for themselves during the flights as they are required to adhere to a \u201cmeal schedule laid down by the company\u201d, according to an internal communication of the national carrier. \u201cIt has been brought to the notice of the undersigned that flight crew are ordering special meal\/s which are against the said rules,\u201d Amitabh Singh, Director Operations, Air India, said in an e-mail to pilots on Wednesday. \u201cThe only crew, who for medical reasons, may order for special meals viz. food recommended by the doctor,\u201d he added. According to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}