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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Mumbai - Delhi, 10 Sep 2005
Ticket price: $550 r/t
Flight duration: 1h 50m
Class: business
Aircraft: B737-700 VT-SJA
Meal: Dinner - Mix salad with choice of dressing, mixed fruit pickle, amul butter, cream of spinach soup, spinach and cream chicken curry with rice and mix vegetables, berry strawberry ice cream.
Drink: Diet Coke and water
Comments: Good meal though on the downward slope
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi - Mumbai, 7 Sep 2005
Ticket price: $550 r/t
Flight duration: 1h 50m
Class: business
Aircraft: B737-700 VT-SIV
Meal: High Tea - Fruit chaat (mix fruit with spicy seasoning), salt & pepper soup, butter, bread sticks, cheese and bombay/gujarati potato sandwich, lemon cake.
Drink: Apple juice and water
Comments: Served "SUBWAY"style. It was dinner time as the flight was delayed. Not quite upto the mark. Full of carbs was this. I would rather have a proper meal. The cake was too sweet. The soup was hot but served at an inappropriate time.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Roy Skaria
Route: PNQ - BLR, 13 May 2005
Ticket price: INR3400 (USD79)
Flight duration: 1h 20m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-200
Meal: Dinner - (anti-Clockwise from lower left)
Amul butter
Veg Salad with (olive?) oil
Rice with 2 curries: spicy chicken curry and chole curry
Fresh Bun
Sweet dish - 2 gulab jamuns (deep fried sweetballs soaked in sugar syrup)
Water from perpaked bottle
Drink: Water and (later) tea/coffee
Comments: The PNQ-HYD direct flight takes only 1 hour. However their evening flight takes a mad detour via-BLR.
This was the dinner we were served on the PNQ-BLR segment: a 1 hour 20 minute flight.
Though there were 2 curries: the qty of the curries on offer was pretty limited. The veg option was exactly the same except for the chicken curry being replaced by Paneer Butter Masala curry.
Other than the limited qty, The meal was of excellent quality as were the staff (2 FA's including 1 male FA) who worked hard despite the constraints.
Fresh Meals were loaded during the halt at BLR. The airline again served a full dinner ont he 1 hour hop to HYD which was much better: it included masala papads and biryani! Never seen papads on an airline meal before! Unfortuantely i didnt take the meal on this segment so no pics!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Roy Skaria
Route: PNQ - BLR, 13 May 2005
Ticket price: INR3400 (USD79)
Flight duration: 1h 20m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-200
Meal: Pre-Takeoff Drink - prepackaged Drink and water bottle
Drink: Frooti Mango Juice
Comments: Only mango juice. But still better than the sick lassi served by IC and 9W as pre-takeoff drinks in economy.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: EmmVee
Route: DEL Delhi - PNQ Pune, 3 Oct 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2h 00m
Class: economy
Aircraft: B-737-700
Meal: Afternoon snack - Subway sandwich, packet of wafers, chocolate pastry, tea/coffee, water. Plastic cutlery.
Drink: Soft drinks, water.
Comments: food, meal, catering standards at Air Sahara are going back to the mundane.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Nigel Talamo
Route: Goa to Mumbai A2 220 date: 30 January 2005
Ticket price:
US$ 187 round trip
Flight duration: about 50 minutes
Aircraft type & class:
Boeing 737 Class: Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type:
Lunch
Contents of the meal: Jain diet meal.
Cucumber & Tomato salad. No dressing
Mata Paneer, Rice, Chana (chickpea curry).
Dessert: Gulab Jamun followed with a couple of aniseed ball sweets
Drink:
Apple Juice
Water.
Comments: I got the Jain menu completely by chance. I haven't taken up the religion and I doubt I ever will being that they are not allowed any garlic, onion, meat, milk products or eggs.
One general comment about the Air Sahara flights I found amusing. Only business class passengers are issued with life jackets. The pasengers in economy are instructed to use their seat cushions for flotation!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4 but if I was Jain perhaps more?
Camera brand & type: Ricoh. Caplio R1. Digital



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Photo taken by: Nigel Talamo
Route:
Mumbai to Goa A2 219 date: 24 January 2005
Ticket price:
US$ 187 round trip
Flight duration: about 50 minutes
Aircraft type & class:
Boeing 737 Class: Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type:
Lunch
Contents of the meal: First course: Candyman pineapple flavoured sweet.
Second course: Salad, Popadom.
Paneer, Rice, Dhal.
Dessert: Budhi Rabhi followed with a couple of aniseed ball sweets
Drink:
Apple Juice
Water.
Comments: I wasn't expecting anything on a 50 minute flight and I thought that the sweet and carton of apple juice, a pleasant offering. Then came the tray of delicious food. What a surprise. I wish that the flight was a bit longer so that I didn't have to rush through the meal. The crew ran a very slick operation. I wouldn't hesitate to fly with Sahara again. The meal was prepared by Taj SATS Air food, meal, catering. Since Taj run the best hotels in India it is not so surprising that the food was so well considered.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6
Camera brand & type: Ricoh. Caplio R1. Digital


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Photo taken by: GMM.
Route: S2-220, GOA (GOI) to Mumbai (BOM), 26 Jun 2004
Ticket price: INR 2800.00 (USD 62.50)
Flight duration: 45 mins.
Aircraft type & class: B-732, Reg. No. VT – SAX, Economy.
Business or leisure trip: Leisure.
Meal type: Pre. Boarding.
Candy.
Drink: n/a.
Comments: These boxes were handed out to passengers after check in. I didn’t want to remove the picture of the actual meal served on board or even eat it, as it was the worst experience I have ever seen of how unprofessional F/A were on this flight. Who were pushing children down to their seat and screaming at old people who actually were in need of assistance. These F/A were straight out of a food, meal, catering course of a prison, thumping trays on the tray table, at the same time saying "SIR"???? I was surprised to see such shabby behavior; such actions are bound to tarnish the already sagging image of this company, which I feel is not bad. Just needs to get more involved and some really good HR guys.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1 for Candy. 0 for service.
Camera brand & type: SONY.

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Photo taken by: EEVEM
Route: Kolkata/Patna, 3 Jun 2004
Ticket price: Rs 2600/- APEX
Flight duration: 1 hour
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 737-400, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: veg on the left and non-veg on the right of the tray, lunch.
Veg = paneer makhni & non-veg = chicken makhni (Cottage Cheese or Chicken curry in a tomato/butter sauce), otherwise common to both was hot steamed rice, kaali daal (black lentils), papadam, salad, sweet gulab jamuns, butter, bread roll, mouth freshener. I think Indian food holds well on airplanes, there is a sandwich selection available, but even the visible foreigners were tucking into the spicy rice-curry combo.
Drink: Soft beverages, tea/coffee, water.
Comments: Air Sahara feeds their passengers as though there is no tommorow. This was for a short flight, 1 hour block time, but actual cruising was just about 40 minutes. Cabin crew has new uniforms.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8 maybe 9
Camera brand & type: Nikon KoolPix

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Bangalore to Delhi (BLR), 11 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL)
Flight duration: 2hrs 50 min
Aircraft type & class: B737-800 VT-SIK, Sahara Special (economy class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner: Mixed salad, fried mini popadums. Entree was chicken curry, steam rice, and chana daal. Dessert was Mango Rhapsody Ice cream sundae (not pictured)
Drink: Packaged water
Comments: No bread roll. Obviously going the Jet way. The minimal food was great, but for such a long flight, the food was less.
Rating 1-10: 7
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Colombo (CMB) to Bangalore (BLR), 11 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL)
Flight duration: 1hr
Aircraft type & class: Canadian Regional Jet (CRJ) VT-SAR, Sahara Special (economy class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Lunch: Aloo (potato) chaat. Entree was chicken coconut masala, uttapams, and sambar. Dessert was an Indian milky dish.
Drink: Diet coke, tea, packaged water
Comments: Brilliant
Rating 1-10: 10
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Colombo (CMB) to Bangalore (BLR), 11 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL)
Flight duration: 1hr
Aircraft type & class: Canadian Regional Jet (CRJ) VT-SAR, Sahara Special (economy class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Munchies before lunch
Drink: Diet coke, tea, packaged water
Comments: Star nuts roasted peanuts
Rating 1-10: 10
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Chennai (MAA), 9 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL), upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs 20mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIS, Sahara Royale (business class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Evening Refreshments: Fruit platter
Drink: Diet coke, tea
Comments: Fresh fruits sprinkled with chaat masala.
Rating 1-10: 9
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Chennai (MAA) to Colombo, 9 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL)
Flight duration: 1hr
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIS, Sahara Special (economy class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type:
Dinner: Moong (beansprout) salad, bread roll Entree of Bhindi (okra) masala, steam rice, chicken masala.
Dessert: Indian milk dessert.
Drink: Packaged drinking water
Comments: Entree was excellent, dessert I did not try. The bread was dry.
Rating 1-10: 9
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Chennai (MAA) to Colombo, 9 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL)
Flight duration: 1hr
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIS, Sahara Special (economy class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Drinks before dinner
Drink: Diet coke, tea
Comments: Tiger beer on Air Sahara
Rating 1-10: 10
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Chennai (MAA), 9 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL), upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs 20mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIS, Sahara Royale (business class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Tea
Comments: Hot and fresh Indian tea
Rating 1-10: 10
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Chennai (MAA), 9 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL), upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs 20mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIS, Sahara Royale (business class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dessert: Fig ice cream
Drink: Diet coke, tea
Comments: Excellent
Rating 1-10: 10
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Chennai (MAA), 9 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL), upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs 20mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIS, Sahara Royale (business class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Evening Refreshments: Metal cutlery
Drink: Diet coke, tea
Comments: Was very surprised to be served with metal cutlery on an Indian flight. The explanation was that as this aircraft was continuing to Colombo, therefore the change. Surprisingly the cutlery was all plastic on the Colombo leg!!
Rating 1-10: 10
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Chennai (MAA), 9 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL), upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs 20mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIS, Sahara Royale (business class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Evening Refreshments: Freshly prepared sandwiches
Drink: Diet coke, tea
Comments: The sandwiches are prepared similar to Subway. I had a mutton seekh kebab sandwich first, followed by a chicken coleslaw one.
Rating 1-10: 8
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Chennai (MAA), 9 May 2004
Ticket price: $400 (DEL-MAA-CMB-BLR-DEL), upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs 20mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIS, Sahara Royale (business class)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Evening Refreshments: Lentil soup
Drink: Diet coke, tea
Comments: It was hot, spicy, and fresh. Tasted delicious.
Rating 1-10: 10
Camera brand & type: Canon IXUS Z50

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Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Mumbai-Delhi, 3 Jan 2004
Flight duration: 2 hours
Aircraft type & class: 737-400 (Economy)
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Baskin and Robbins banana and strawberry ice cream
Drink: Water
Comments: Whoa! I can’t believe this was all served on a two-hour flight, amazing! The ice cream was a nice treat after a long day.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Mumbai-Delhi, 3 Jan 2004
Flight duration: 2 hours
Aircraft type & class: 737-400 (Economy)
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Vegetarian option - The main dish consisted of paneer and green peas in tomato gravy, rice and yellow dahl, all Indian specialties. There was a salad that consisted of cucumbers, tomatoes, an olive and a chili with no salad dressing. There was also a bun wrapped in plastic with some “Amul” butter.
Drink: Water
Comments: Despite the bun being pre packaged, it was actually very nice and soft. There were also three mini papads in a small zip lock bag which my dad ate and from what I understand it was as good as it can be. The meal itself was pretty good quantity wise for such a short flight.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Mumbai-Delhi, 3 Jan 2004
Flight duration: 2 hours
Aircraft type & class: 737-400 (Economy)
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Lunch - Roasted Peanut Poppers (Lime-N-Pudina)
Drink: Mirinda (Not pictured)
Comments: Not to my liking at all. I am probably too Western for my own good, but everyone else seemed to enjoy it, including my mother.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5 (not to my taste but they tried)

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Bangalore (BLR) to Delhi (DEL), 24 Mar 2004
Ticket price: US$1210 (o/w) upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs15mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-300 VT-SAW, business class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
Entree, plus roomali roti and bread roll
Drink: Orange Juice, water
Comments: Sahara serves the main course by trolley. There are a selection of eight dishes and you can choose as many and as much. This is a tremendous airline. If you are a foodie, then you must try them out.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10 (food) 8.5 (service)

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Bangalore (BLR) to Delhi (DEL), 24 Mar 2004
Ticket price: US$1210 (o/w) upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs15mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-300 VT-SAW, business class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
Entree: Chicken masala, mutton pasanda, jeera rice, and tomato paneer (cottage cheese)
Drink: Orange Juice, water
Comments: Excellent
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Bangalore (BLR) to Delhi (DEL), 24 Mar 2004
Ticket price: US$1210 (o/w) upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs15mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-300 VT-SAW, business class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Cream of tomato soup, with croutons, and bread sticks (not shown)
Drink: Orange Juice, water
Comments: Hot, fresh, a lot flavour, but a bit too oily
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Bangalore (BLR) to Delhi (DEL), 24 Mar 2004
Ticket price: US$1210 (o/w) upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 2hrs15mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-300 VT-SAW, business class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Mixed pickle, Amul butter, salad, Indian milk dessert.
Drink: Orange Juice, water
Comments: Salad was fresh, but no dressing.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6.5

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Mumbai (BOM), 22 Mar 2004
Ticket price: US$128 (o/w) upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 1hrs40mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIU, business class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Vegetarian selection: Aloo parathas (potato pancakes), vegetable croquette, paneer bhurji (minced cottage cheese cooked in a tomato gravy with mild Indian spices), and a hot almond muffin (on the right corner)
Comments: Amazing breakfast and full marks to Air Sahara for treating J class passengers as royalty. There was also a hot beverage and cookie service after the entrees. This was served on a trolley and poured fresh.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10 (food) 11 (service)

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Mumbai (BOM), 22 Mar 2004
Ticket price: US$128 (o/w) upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 1hrs40mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIU, business class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Croissant, Corn flakes
Comments: Croissant was fresh and the cereal crunchy
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Mumbai (BOM), 22 Mar 2004
Ticket price: US$128 (o/w) upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 1hrs40mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIU, business class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Cream crackers, mixed pickle, Amul butter, Amul processed cheese, fresh fruit platter consisting of pineapple, papaya, and grapefruit
Comments: The fruit was fresh though not very sweet
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Mumbai (BOM), 22 Mar 2004
Ticket price: US$128 (o/w) upgraded to J class
Flight duration: 1hrs40mins
Aircraft type & class: B737-700 VT-SIU, business class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Drinks service before breakfast
Contents of the meal: Cocktail nuts
Drink: Apple juice
Comments: Nuts not appropriate for the time of the day, but very welcome though.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Siva Ganeshan
Route: DEL - Bangalore BLR, 20 Sep 2003
Flight duration: 2 Hrs 30 Min
Aircraft type & class: 737-800 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Fresh Pineapple pieces, Cereal with Hot/Cold milk, Paneer (Indian Cheese) & peas curry, Nan bread & Veg breaded roll, Croissant & Preserves, OJ & Coffee/Tea
Comments: Impressive Good filling meal on this short domestic flight. The milk for the cereals was served a little late though. Sahara is up there with Jet Airways on in-flight service
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: NVU
Flying from: Delhi (DEL) to Goa (GOI), 18 June 2003
Ticket price: US$210 one way
Flight duration: 2h20m
Aircraft type & class: B737-400 Y class
Meal type: Lunch - mango chaat, potato and paneer (cottage cheese
cubes) concoction, Indian mildly spiced chicken curry, white rice, mini
popadums, roomali roti, pickle.
Drink: a selection of soft drinks were continuously available, including
packaged water.
Comments: Nice selection of food, though it would have tasted a bit
better had it not dried out so much, but the service aboard Air Sahara
is amazing. Perfection in Indian hospitality.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.5/10 (food) 10/10 (service)

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Photo taken by: Veeresh Malik
Flying from: New Delhi to Pune, 26 September 2002
Class: Economy
Meal type: Afternoon snacks, 2 hour domestic flight on a B-737/700 - I ordered both the veg and non-veg snacks to make a prettier picture. We had upma (semolina salty halwa) and a potato chop/cutlet as the common factors, with chicken tikkas on one side and paneer (cottage cheese) tandoori for the veggies. Again, piping hot without tasting like micro-waved rubber. Then there was the dahi-bhalla (true milk yoghurt with a dumpling inside, spiced up with chillies and tamarind sauce) which is best had cold, and it was. Ice-cream and coffee not shown. Fortune cookie not shown.
Drink: No booze, as much cola as you want.
Comments: "The hot/cold towel service is needed, especially if you are taking off from hot Delhi for cool Pune."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Veeresh Malik
Flying from: Pune to New Delhi date 24th Sept '02
Class: Economy
Meal type: Full lunch on a 2 hour noon flight - Fairly fresh salad, pickles, mini popadams, main dish of piping hot chicken tikka curry, malai daal and jeera rice, water, tea/coffee (not shown), Baskin Robbins ice-cream, fortune cookie (not shown), and those two small things on the side are sweet/sour tamarind balls. Also had fresh raw mango juice on arrival, mouth freshener, hot-cold towel service, and as much cola as you want throughout. Plastic cutlery is now the law in India.
Drink: No alcohol on domestic flights in India.
Comments: "This is a new airline trying to win people through a variety of methods, including food. Most domestic flights in India serve a full meal if the flight is of more than 45-60 minutes duration. The choices are usually veg (most popular, wait for it), non-veg usually poultry, and the full range of pre-ordered specials. Photography is banned at airports but photographs of airline food are not banned. As yet."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9