NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday relaxed onboard meal and inflight service norms for domestic flights, as well as international ones operated by Air India, private airlines and charter companies. Airlines operating domestic flights can now provide pre-packed snacks, meals and hot beverages. This means, low cost airlines can start selling these items again and full service can resume meal service. Passengers on international flights can now be served hot meals and limited beverages \u2014 including alcoholic \u2014 instead of the packed food and cold non-alcoholic beverage and water bottles that were kept on seats to minimise crew-flyer interaction till now during the pandemic.
\nBack-of-seat inflight entertainment (IFE) screens have also been allowed to come to life with the condition that before boarding of passengers, each screen should be disinfected and cleaned thoroughly. Disposable or disinfected headphones can now be given to passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday relaxed onboard meal and inflight service norms for domestic flights, as well as international ones operated by Air India, private airlines and charter companies. Airlines operating domestic flights can now provide pre-packed snacks, meals and hot beverages. This means, low cost airlines can start selling these items again and full service can resume meal service. Passengers on international flights can now be served hot meals and limited beverages \u2014 including alcoholic \u2014 instead of the packed food and cold non-alcoholic beverage and water bottles that were kept on seats to minimise crew-flyer interaction till […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370446","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}