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| Airline Apologizes To Jewish Customers |
| 2011-02-22 |
| UK budget airline easyJet apologized Tuesday to Jewish customers after the only food choices served on a flight from Israel were ham melts and bacon baguettes. Passengers who follow the faith's ban on eating pork were forced to go hungry for the four-and-a-half hour journey from Tel Aviv to London. The airline introduced the route in November, proudly promising that in-flight menus would feature kosher food that met Jewish dietary laws. So Victor Kaufman, 25, was stunned when cabin crew announced the meal choices on his flight last weekend. "It was a little insensitive. I think they need a lesson or two on cultural awareness if they expand their routes into the Middle East. It is not just Jewish passengers who do not eat pork but Muslim ones, too. I couldn't eat anything," the trainee accountant said. An easyJet spokeswoman said company policy bans even taking pork products aboard planes on the route. She added, "It appears that a mistake was made on this flight and that incorrect food canisters were loaded. We would like to apologize to the passengers." i bet there will not be any rioting, deaths or embassies bombed because of this.... |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #4 food choices served on a flight from Israel were ham melts and bacon baguettes "really? I'll take yours, thanks" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-22 19:58 |
| #3 Could have been loaded in London and the plane making a return trip - and all the 'kosher' items having been eaten on the way to Israel. Luckily it wasn't a muslim flight and nobody was killed or injured in the seething and rage. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-02-22 18:05 |
| #2 for the four-and-a-half hour journey from Tel Aviv to London Which I assume means they on-loaded the food canisters in Tel Aviv. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-22 17:19 |
| #1 Nu? They turned it into good publicity. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2011-02-22 16:48 |