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THE GULF TODAY

Wednesday, September 30, 2002

Indian Airlines introduces new supper menu

INDIAN Airlines will introduce a new supper menu from Nov.1, said K Shyamsunder, regional manager. The introduction of the new menu is based on the feedback from the passengers, Shyamsunder said at a press conference held at the Sharjah International Airport on Tuesday.

Passengers traveling on Indian Airlines flights originating at Sharjah International Airport will also enjoy an extra sweet from Nov. 1-7 as part of the Diwali celebrations by the airline.

"The feedback we got from flights to Ahmedabad and Bangalore was the passengers wanted a non rice meal. Hence we came up with this menu which does not have rice and will be rotated thrice in a year," he said.

J K Nair, executive chef of Albert Abela, which caters food for Indian Airlines, said: "The supper meal is like a heavy snack which is basically dry and non starchy. It will be served at a midpoint after dinner and before breakfast."

In the first rotation, which will be served in February, May, August and November, business and economy class passengers opting for a vegetarian meal will enjoy vegetable Kathi roll, vegetable cutlet and green peas curry bouch. The non-vegetarian meal features lam kofta, chicken boti kebab and green peas curry bouche. Both the meals will also have Katchumber salad, garnish and malai sandwich.

The second rotation, which will be served in March, June, September and December, features chicken reshmi kebab, shammi kabab and vegetable hakka noodles for the non-vegetarian meal and upma, Mysore bonda and spinach croquette for the vegetarian meal. Both the meals will also have tossed salad and rasamalai accompanying.

In the third rotation, which will be served in the months of January, April, July and October, the non vegetarian meal will include chicken tikka, mutton kathi roll and mini

pizza while the vegetarian meal will have vegetable spring roll, mini pizza and aloo tikki with dahi vada and gulab jamun common to both meals.

Shyamsunder said that the new menu would complement to existing hot meals and breakfast menus. He said that special meals including diabetic and salt free would be served on request.

On the Diwali promotion, he said. "We have a wide range of sweets to choose from but it will be dry. The sweets are being made here itself," he said.

Indian Airlines also commenced their winter schedule from Oct. 27 with the revision of the Dubai-Delhi-Jaipur flight timings. Under the new schedule the flight will leave Dubai at 1.10 pm and will arrive in Delhi at 6 pm and at Jaipur at 7.30 pm.

The return flight will leave Jaipur at 8.30 am, reach Delhi at 10 am and Dubai at 12.10 pm. The schedule from Sharjah International Airport remains unchanged. "During winter we are offering 6,800 seats per month of which 4,800 seats are out of Sharjah. There is no increase in the frequency. We had a major increase in the summer schedule and we are continuing with that. We are consolidating on this before we increase the number of flights," said Shyamsunder. He said even in the lean months, the airline has a 70-75 per cent seat factor. He said that the airline would operate additional non-stop flights to Calicut during the Eid festival to cater to the demand.

"We continue to do so on ad hoc basis depending on the traffic. The Sharjah-Bangalore sector has shown a big increase. From February 2002 we have increased the flights to four times a week from the previous two. This means we now carry around 1000 passengers to Bangalore a week as compared to 500 earlier. Ideally we would like to have daily flights to all our 15 destinations. Hopefully in two to three years, we will be able to do this," he said.


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