Expect cheaper airline meals (for them, not you)

Don’t expect cheaper airline meals just because one of the world’s biggest airline caterers is swapping prawns for chicken on menus to save on costs.

Singapore’s Airport Terminal Services (SATS) handles in-flight catering at Changi Airport. SATS controls about 80% of Changi Airport’s ground handling and catering business.

SATS said prawns which used to be available on some flights are routinely being replaced by chicken as the meat is cheaper.

Airlines sometimes “decide to reduce the protein amount just to maintain the price, or they look to substitute protein in terms of the meals,” SATS President and Chief Executive Officer Kerry Mok said in response to an analyst question on cheaper airline meals during a webcast on the company’s fiscal third-quarter results this week.

Mok said…

“If the prawns are too expensive, we will change to chicken.”

SATS said Monday…