Posted on 10/15/2013 9:57:19 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Investigations underway
Air India said Tuesday an investigation was underway after a passenger found worms in his sandwich mid-flight. The passenger made the discovery during a flight from New York to New Delhi on September 28 on India's struggling flagship carrier.
The passenger reported the incident to Air India, but said he did not hear anything back for two weeks, according to the Press Trust of India. "We are investigating the caterer regarding this incident," airline spokesman Prasad Rao told AFP in New Delhi.
The spokesman said the airline maintained high standards, including hygiene conditions, adding that this was a "very rare incident".
The loss-making airline has been hit by a string of issues, including over safety. In May, a flight to Bangalore was diverted to another city after the pilot returned from a toilet break and found the door to the cockpit jammed shut.
Air India also this year suspended a senior pilot caught drunk just before he was to fly a passenger aircraft.
Air India is the country's fourth-largest airline by market share, and has been hit hard by rising fuel prices and fierce competition from private carriers that have added to a legacy of labour problems and crushing debts.
You find a worm in an Air India sandwich and are alarmed?!! Ha! Ha! No doubt Air India caterers hired Indians with Indian health, sanitation and housekeeping standards which created this sandwich. This is normal table fare in India which is why everything is boiled or deep-fried to hell. Flies landing on food, depositing their eggs and people with filthy, filthy hands are there handing food at every turn. So NO, this isn’t a surprise about Air India food. Buy a sandwich at the airport and only drink canned beverages for the flight.
ELAINE: Well ...
USHA: Don't go. India is a dreadful, dreadful place.
ZUBIN: You know, it's the only country that still has the plague? (laughing as he says the line) I mean, the plague! Please!
USHA: Here's the registry. Send her a gift, and be glad you did not have to go.
ELAINE: (Soaking it in) Right. Don't go. Send a gift. I think I understand.
ZUBIN: If I had to go to India, I wouldn't go to the bathroom the entire trip.
ELAINE: (Leaving) That's fantastic.
ZUBIN: And I'm not so crazy about Manhattan, either.
< /SEINFELD >
Do Jains fly?
The flight was FROM New York? So would that not imply a New York based food supplier?
They call it protein.
I left my last company because I had to start flying to India twice a year.
Starting Dec. 1, United will apply a $30 surcharge to those passengers who desire to sit in the “worm-free” section of the cabin.
I had that happen on a United flight once.
Good thing it wasn’t a Muslim who bit into a worm. He would be one angry jihadist, especially if that worm crawled out of a pig’s a—!
Gagh ping.
But was it Torgud gagh, Filden gagh, Meshta gagh, Bithool gagh, Wistan gagh, or some other variety?
“Slimy, yet satisfying.”
At least he didn’t ask for the Cockroach Cluster.
Or Ram’s Bladder Cup or Anthrax Ripple.
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