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Photo taken by: NVU
Route: Delhi - Chennai, 6 Feb 2006
Ticket price: $390 r/t (Del-Maa-Cmb-Maa-Del)
Flight duration: 2h 20m
Class: economy
Aircraft: A320 VT-EYE
Meal: Breakfast - Vegetarian meal: Croissant, Verka butter, cut fresh fruit, mango yoghurt, coconut chutney. Entree was mini masala dosas-sambhar-upma.
Drink: Coffee
Comments: Excellent hot south Indian breakfast on this 0630 flight to Chennai. Very tasty indeed especially the dosa and upma. I am most impressed with Indian economy meal and cabin crew service.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: GMM.
Route: IC597, Mumbai (BOM) to Goa (GOI), 23 Jun 2004
Ticket price: INR 3300.00 (USD 72.50)
Flight duration: 45 mins.
Aircraft type & class: Airbus – 300 (AB3) Reg. No. VT-EVD, Economy.
Business or leisure trip: Leisure.
Meal type: Evening Snack. (VEG)
Paneer (Cottage cheese) in Schzewan sauce, Veg. Harabara kebab, Cheese / mayo sandwich, Indian mithai.
Drink: Limejuice, Water.
Comments: My friend had this meal and rated it to be fairly nice. A little story about this flight, the Captain and First officer arrived 45 mins after scheduled departure time, which was 16:00 hours. And started taxing within 7 mins. Which made me think if all necessary checks were performed. It felt more like a taxi ride. (this happens only in INDIA). However the Check in and ground handling staff were very polite and courteous.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5/ 10 for food. –10/10 for pilots.
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: Michal Buciak
Route: Delhi (DEL) to Kathmandu (KTM), 5 Nov 2003
Flight duration: 1:30
Aircraft type & class: Airbus 300-B4, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: As a standard you get a pure vegetarian set: some unidentified beans with very spicy sauce + good vanilla cake with vanilla sauce _ peanuts. On request you could get a non-veg meal (here seen on my wife's table), which contained hot chicken with rice & cabage.
Drink: Mineral water + orange juice.
Comments: The beans were much too spicy. Chicken was excellent - warm and well prepared. The cake with fantastic vanilla sauce was just perfect to end this meal before going out to Himalaya mountains ;-).
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8