What happens if I eat my own food in flight on an airline that prohibits outside food?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 19 Jul, 2023
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Although rules are rules, this is a practical advice while flying with Scoot. I had done the same thing on Scoot.
Just buy something small from 711 or somewhere, not a full fledged meal. Airport security will not stop you. Just have the item once meal serving is finished. DO not try to eat while taking off or landing. Airline agents won’t be looking to enforce that rule. However, if they say, please do not argue. Immediately put it away. Even the slightest aggression will be viewed as threatening the crew and police will be waiting for you when you land.
Another thing you can say is you have food allergies and you have to be really careful on what you eat. They won’t usually argue with that.
Note: Scoot’s meal pricing is reasonable compared to food prices in Singapore, if it is prebooked.
Just don’t take a whole pile of McDonalds or KFC on board. At Changi even flights to Oz now don’t get screened at the aircraft door. I’ve never been asked to put a sandwich away. Subway might be a little risky though. But this is how they get you in SE Asia which is pedantic about T&C’s. Yes strictly legally you are disobeying a crew order. That’s actually where they can get you. Doesn’t matter if its about food or anything else. instructions are instructions. So they make it about food. Its a dirty and nasty money grabbing tactic that exploits these loopholes that the national laws of SEA countries inadvertently allow this to happen.
In legal theory, disobeying instructions from cabin crew is a crime in most jurisdictions and you could theoretically be arrested.
In practice, and I say this having flown long-haul flights on Scoot a few times, the cabin crew is running around understaffed and has bigger things to worry about than inspecting whether your sandwich is authorised or not. If you’re still worried, eat during meal service right after the trolley has passed you, potentially deploying additional camouflage by purchasing an officially approved drink to wash down your contraband sandwich.
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