New Delhi:
Consuming at airports is a pricey affair. Meals gadgets bought at airport retailers are sometimes overpriced, forcing many passengers to skip meals. However it might quickly get straightforward on the pockets with the authorities planning financial system zones that might promote meals and drinks at an inexpensive worth, sources mentioned.
In contrast to different eating places within the airport, these zones won’t have any seating preparations. Passengers should accumulate their meals from the counters and eat at fast-food tables. There may even be a takeaway facility.
The civil aviation minister reached a consensus to begin work on the financial 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 companies to function such zones, they mentioned.
Sources mentioned 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, mentioned in a web based submit 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 mentioned it had famous the value discrepancy.