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Prawns out, chickens in to cut airline meal costs

Airline industry losses are expected to total $6.9 billion last year

A meal is served during a media event for Scoot, a unit of Singapore Airlines Ltd, at Changi Airport in Singapore on Nov 26, 2020. (File photo: Bloomberg)

SINGAPORE: One of the world’s biggest airline caterers is swapping prawns for chicken on menus more regularly to help save costs as the aviation industry emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Singapore’s SATS Ltd, which provides an array of third-party services including catering to airlines, said prawns that used to be available on certain flights are routinely being replaced by chicken as the meat is cheaper. 

Airlines sometimes “decide to reduce the protein amount just to…

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