New Delhi:
Consuming at airports is a expensive affair. Meals gadgets bought at airport retailers are sometimes overpriced, forcing many passengers to skip meals. However it could quickly get straightforward on the pockets with the authorities planning economic system zones that will promote meals and drinks at an inexpensive value, sources stated.
Not like different eating places within the airport, these zones won’t have any seating preparations. Passengers must gather their meals from the counters and eat at fast-food tables. There may also be a takeaway facility.
The civil aviation minister reached a consensus to begin work on the economic system zones after a number of rounds of conferences. Discussions will now be held with the Airport Authorities of India (AAI), meals retailers at airports in addition to different businesses to function such zones, they stated.
Sources stated such zones will first come up on the newly constructed airports.
A number of passengers had raised considerations over overpriced meals gadgets being bought at airport retailers.
Former Union minister P Chidambaram, who was amongst them, stated in an internet put up in September {that a} cup of tea – made with simply “a tea bag and scorching water” – prices Rs 340 at a widely known café that has an outlet within the Kolkata airport. Responding to him, the airport stated it had famous the value discrepancy.