National Airline Outrages Christians After Only Meat For Good Friday Meals

Australia's National Carrier Qantas Has Outraged And Frustrated Christian Travellers On Good Friday With Several Claiming The Airline Only Had Meat Meal Options

Laudetur Iesus Christus.

Several Catholic travellers have been left outraged, disappointed and frustrated after Australia's national airline, Qantas, did not stock any fish or vegetarian meal options for travellers on some routes on Good Friday.

Pope Benedict Departs Australia On Qantas. Photo: AAP

Writing on a public forum of Qantas complaints and to this publication, several travellers made known their dissatisfaction.

Keith, who flew from Perth to Melbourne on Good Friday, was told there were no non-meat meal options. He mentioned that he thought it was a disappointing failure of respect from Qantas' management.

Monique also flew on Good Friday from the Gold Coast and mentioned that there were only two options even in Business Class, and they were both meat dishes.

Lisa flew from Brisbane to Perth on Good Friday and said she was shocked when the meal options were 'pork or chicken'; she said, "As an Irishman, Alan Joyce [Qantas CEO] should have known better."

Jeanette flew from Brisbane to Sydney on Good Friday and said that when she asked in the Qantas lounge for a meat-free option, she was given a plastic-wrapped cheese sandwich; it seemed that on the flight, it was the same case, where she was given a few chocolate biscuits because there were no vegetarian or fish options.

Qantas' recent lack of customer service raises a serious question about its long-term viability, with executive management constantly making excuses and passengers becoming increasingly frustrated.

Large corporations have been known for being aware of significant changes for the most prominent Christian day of mourning, Good Friday. One of the best examples of this is McDonald's Filet-O-Fish which was created in 1962 as a response to meagre hamburger sales on Fridays, especially Good Friday, resulting from the Christian practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays.