Airlines and schools take chicken off the menu
By Yang Jian and Zhao Wen |
April 9, 2013, Tuesday
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SOME Chinese airlines have begun removing chicken from their menus because of the bird flu crisis.
Shanghai-based Spring Airlines said it was serving shrimp or beef instead and Xiamen Airlines said it wouldn't be serving poultry meat from Sunday, replacing it with pork, beef or seafood.
"The airline has received many complaints from passengers especially on flights between Shanghai and Beijing that they didn't want to have chicken in their meals," Xiamen said.
China Southern changed its chicken dish to fried rice with eggs and beef noodles on services between Shanghai and Guangzhou yesterday.
Taiwan-based China Airlines and Mandarin Airlines have also adjusted the proportion of chicken and duck in the meals and enhanced sanitation and disinfection measures in cabins, the airlines announced on their websites.
"The China and Mandarin airlines have strictly chosen all of its raw materials for meals for flights between the mainland and Taiwan and passengers can eat at ease," the airline group said yesterday.
Proving unpopular
Some other airlines are still serving chicken on routes between Shanghai and Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong as well as Shanghai to inland areas, but chicken dishes are proving unpopular.
Meanwhile, airports at Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan have upgraded checks on passengers on flights from the mainland.
Macau International Airport is using infrared equipment to measure passengers' body temperatures.
Major airports in Japan have also begun distributing leaflets to tourists heading for the Chinese mainland to remind them to take precautions.
Meanwhile, chicken has been taken off the menu at some kindergartens, schools and universities in Shanghai.
"Students and teachers in our school have been eating pork ribs for two days," said Lu Pei, a teacher at Red Star Elementary Schoo in Baoshan District.
Lu said her school had received a notice from the Shanghai Education Commission asking all primary school cafeterias to stop offering chicken.
Teachers at kindergartens and middle schools said they also hadn't been offered chicken dishes for the past two days.
At Shanghai Ocean University's cafe yesterday, chicken and eggs were absent. Other universities said they were strictly monitoring the source of their supplies.
Shanghai-based Spring Airlines said it was serving shrimp or beef instead and Xiamen Airlines said it wouldn't be serving poultry meat from Sunday, replacing it with pork, beef or seafood.
"The airline has received many complaints from passengers especially on flights between Shanghai and Beijing that they didn't want to have chicken in their meals," Xiamen said.
China Southern changed its chicken dish to fried rice with eggs and beef noodles on services between Shanghai and Guangzhou yesterday.
Taiwan-based China Airlines and Mandarin Airlines have also adjusted the proportion of chicken and duck in the meals and enhanced sanitation and disinfection measures in cabins, the airlines announced on their websites.
"The China and Mandarin airlines have strictly chosen all of its raw materials for meals for flights between the mainland and Taiwan and passengers can eat at ease," the airline group said yesterday.
Proving unpopular
Some other airlines are still serving chicken on routes between Shanghai and Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong as well as Shanghai to inland areas, but chicken dishes are proving unpopular.
Meanwhile, airports at Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan have upgraded checks on passengers on flights from the mainland.
Macau International Airport is using infrared equipment to measure passengers' body temperatures.
Major airports in Japan have also begun distributing leaflets to tourists heading for the Chinese mainland to remind them to take precautions.
Meanwhile, chicken has been taken off the menu at some kindergartens, schools and universities in Shanghai.
"Students and teachers in our school have been eating pork ribs for two days," said Lu Pei, a teacher at Red Star Elementary Schoo in Baoshan District.
Lu said her school had received a notice from the Shanghai Education Commission asking all primary school cafeterias to stop offering chicken.
Teachers at kindergartens and middle schools said they also hadn't been offered chicken dishes for the past two days.
At Shanghai Ocean University's cafe yesterday, chicken and eggs were absent. Other universities said they were strictly monitoring the source of their supplies.
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