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I am glad Jet Airways has taken the lead in the matter of banning food articles
from their flights.
If not already, other airlines will soon start doing likewise, and rightly so.
With flying becoming much less expensive than it was, people who could once not
afford to fly, now routinely do so but have not learned the norms and
etiquette, let alone the rules that come with it.
Imagine meat or fish even if cooked, rotting due to delays in flights and
connections and then being consumed at destinations immediately, or heaven
forbid re-frozen for future consumption.
In North America, customs strictly prohibit entry of any food even if canned.
When my son was returning from a long educational stay in Europe, he brought
back 4 small cans of Danish Plumrose cocktail sausages which he knows I am fond
of and which since the last couple of years is not available in Toronto.
Not forseeing any problem with a sealed item made in Europe, he declared it.
(My son being a straight arrow born in the developed world and taught to
respect all rules and laws unconditionally, is not like his father who has had
Indian training). For all his trouble, those tins were confiscated.
Roland
Toronto.
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From: Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
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Subject: [Goanet] Beware Goans before you book airline tickets !!
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Jet Airways
has banned carrying of all meat and fish products in its check-in or hand carry
luggage. The policy of the airline is also provided in writing by the Guest
Relations Executive Tania Ferreira from the Corporate Office in Bombay. The
statement reads thus “It is with regret we note your unpleasant experience at
Goa airport. Please allow me to mention here that effective June 27th, 2011,
there has been a policy revision wherein carriage of fish, crab, sea food, meat
and poultry products will be prohibited as check-in baggage”. Jet Airways also
provided a web link where it has mentioned the same at
http://www.jetairways.com/EN/IN/Baggage/CheckedBaggage.aspx
Goans travelling by Jet Airways within India or abroad have now to think
twice before booking their flights if they really want to travel with or
without the
Goan delicacy for the love of the airline or choose another airline for the
love of Goan sausages, parra, prawns pickle, etc. also returning with items
like Bacalhao, etc. Rest of the airlines have no such restrictions in or from
India.
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
