The Minister of Aviation has clarified is directive on foreign airlines out-bound flights to patronise our local caterers is not the same thing as directing them to serve local dishes.
The Minister said our local caterers can also prepare continental dishes for anyone for that matters according to desired specification .
The age-long practice of foreign airlines bringing their meals frozen from their different countries and then warming and serving them on their outbound flights to mostly our own citizens is no longer acceptable. The Minister said we also have quality control agencies to supervise the hygienic nature of those meals, to meet the desired standards.
The Minister said on the flip side, if they want us to trust the quality of the food they bring into our country to serve our own citizens, then they also should trust our own process of vetting those meals made by our local caterers.
The bottom line is that we must support our local businesses by patronising them with our huge population and traffic, other caterers from other climes should not benefit from what should essentially be to the benefit of our local economy.