British discount carrier easyJet is apologizing to Jewish customers after it stocked only bacon baguettes and ham melts as meal selections on a flight from Tel Aviv earlier this month.easyJet says it was a mistake, explaining that workers brought the wrong food canisters onto the London-bound flight, according to CNN International.
“It was a little insensitive,” 25-year-old passenger Victor Kaufman of metro London says to The Jewish Chronicle about the incident. “I think they need a lesson or two on cultural awareness if they expand their routes into the Middle East.”
“It is not just Jewish passengers who do not eat pork but Muslim ones, too,” Victor adds to The Sun of London. “I couldn’t eat anything.”
The flight from Tel Aviv to London takes about four-and-a-half hours.
easyJet just began the Tel Aviv route in November, saying at the time it would offer kosher meals that meet Jewish dietary guidelines.
An unnamed spokeswoman for easyJet tells the London Daily Mail that the airline’s policy is not to load pork products on Israel flights.
“It appears that a mistake was made on this particular flight and that incorrect food canisters were loaded onto the aircraft,” she tells the Daily Mail. “We would like to apologize to the passengers and can confirm we have done everything we can to ensure that this does not happen again.”
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