subject: How Do I Explain My Special Meal Requirements To Airlines [print this page] Special meal requirements are important to declare way in advance. You cannot expect to get on a flight and have your vegan meal ready.
When booking a ticket, it's essential that you make clear your meal preferences. Aeroplanes have limited space on board and cannot store every sort of special meal requirement that you might have. Therefore, you must remember to book your meal requirement before you board the aeroplane. Every company offers these options, whether you're flying to another countries or just catching flights from Dallas to Tampa with your family.
While booking your ticket, whether booking through a travel portal online, through a price comparison site, or booking through the companies own specially developed website, there usually comes an option at which time you are given the opportunity to declare exactly what type of meal you'd like to receive. This applies to flights from New York to Tokyo, just as much as it applies to flights on a domestic level. On these flights, where you will be in the air for horus, it's especially important that the airline and the people working on the flight, know if you have allergies, special religious or dietary requirements as there's a chance you'll be on the plane for many hours and that there will be no chance that you can wait until you get off the plane and eat.
Options for religions such as Judaism and Islam are common. As are people who maintain a diet such the vegan or vegetarianism. If you are in one of these categories you can usually select the option from a drop-down menu when booking online, but sometimes you need to call the airline and explain if you require a gluten-free meal or to ask if you allergies will cause a problem on flights from San Francisco to Las Vegas, for example. Wherever you're going, they should be able to help you.
