Qantas has stopped providing vegetarian meals on some home flights, leaving one irate traveller to counsel it's a additional signal that the airline is in decline.
Environmentalist Jon Dee was flying from Adelaide to Sydney on Sunday night time when he was instructed there was solely rooster pie on the menu.
“They mentioned it’s one dimension matches all now – it’s this or nothing for any flight underneath three and a half hours,” the frequent flyer mentioned.
“The system for bags has appeared to have collapsed in a single day. For many years I’ve been capable of have a vegetarian meal and unexpectedly that’s additionally collapsed in a single day – and there's no motive it ought to have.”
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In an announcement, the airline confirmed it was providing one meal choice on many home routes, which meant solely offering rooster pies on some flights.
“Throughout Covid we made some modifications to onboard meals and repair choices to simplify the service supply for our crew,” a spokesperson mentioned.
“We now supply a single meal/snack choice per flight on our shorter flights, resembling a rooster pie or a zucchini and onion frittata. If the choice on a specific flight just isn't appropriate for vegetarians, we attempt to supply another of a small candy or savoury snack which is vegetarian.”
Qantas mentioned on longer home and worldwide flights prospects might nonetheless e-book particular meals together with vegan or gluten-free and dairy-free choices.
Dee, who travels regularly for work, mentioned he had been capable of get vegetarian choices on flights in Australia because the Nineteen Nineties.
“On Qantas, you can get a correct meal, like pasta,” he mentioned. “They did nice vegetarian meals. If it was a pie you'd get a vegetarian pie. You had a sensible choice.
“I went on a Jetstar flight lately and bought a greater choice than Qantas. Not even Ryanair would do that on.”
Virgin and Jetstar nonetheless supply vegetarian choices on all home flights.
Dee mentioned about 10% of Australians ate a plant-based weight loss plan and lots of extra had dietary restrictions for spiritual causes.
“What [Qantas chief executive] Alan Joyce has finished is alienate a major proportion of Qantas passengers,” he mentioned.
“While you pay for Qantas you pay for full service, that features a meal and abruptly when you don’t eat meat, or you could have a particular meal want, or your faith means you possibly can’t eat a kind of meals, this resolution has alienated you.”
Qantas, which has been underneath fireplace for flight delays, cancellations and misplaced baggage, mentioned on Monday its general efficiency had barely improved in September.
“On-time efficiency has improved from 52% of flights on time in July, to 67% in August and 71% from 1-14 September,” the airline mentioned. “Mishandled luggage are at six per 1,000 passengers general and at 5 per 1,000 for home – which is at pre-Covid ranges.”
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