A Delta Air Lines flight carrying spoiled meals en route to Amsterdam has prompted changes to the menu’s carbohydrate content.
According to reports, when food is found to be “spoiled” people, Delta Air Lines Flight 136 took off from Detroit early Wednesday morning and was diverted to New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport.
“Delta’s food safety team has contacted our supplier to immediately quarantine the product and conduct a thorough investigation of the incident,” a spokesperson told wealth. “This is not a service Delta is known for and we deeply apologize for the inconvenience and delay this has caused our customers.”
It’s a little late, though, sources told CBS Detroit that about 70 passengers were reportedly sick, adding that they stopped eating the chicken after feeling it was “really sour,” while others It means that there is black mold on some meals.
An airline spokesperson told CNBC that about 75 international flights on Wednesday and Thursday were serving only pasta due to spoiled food.
But now the days of pasta are a thing of the past.
“We did adjust meal service on dozens of flights while we worked with the catering department to review meal quality assurance. Today, we are resuming normal daily service,” the spokesperson told wealthadding that they had no comment on the CBS report detailing the spoiled food.
The exact cause is unclear. Ash Dhokte, the airline’s head of check-in services, wrote to employees saying the company was investigating the incident and “has taken immediate corrective measures to avoid a recurrence,” CNBC reported.
This occurred during a period of intense travel. According to AAA, nearly 71 million people are expected to travel during the July 4th holiday, and most of them will be driving. Air traffic has also surged, with the Transportation Security Administration estimating that more than 3 million people will be subject to travel screening at airports nationwide on Sunday, a record high.
Of course, airlines are still experiencing some turmoil recently as they struggle to recover from pandemic-era staffing shortages. The holidays put additional pressure on an industry already in pressure cooker mode as it undergoes a reckoning of sorts.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily grounded some Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft after a door jam detached on an Alaska Air plane mid-flight.
Separately, the Justice Department set a deadline for Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud in light of plane crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 336 people. Requirements have been relaxed. “It’s just a reinvention that gets Boeing out of trouble,” Nadia Miller, the mother of Samia Stummer, who died in a crash, told The Associated Press.
