Mangaluru airport food cost

 How much does food cost in Mangaluru airport?

Mangaluru airport food cost it at par with other airports in Country. Almost 500 Rupees for a dosa and coffee.

Mangaluru airport being small, there is only one restaurant serving proper breakfast items. There are few more shops selling bakery items, samosa, sandwich etc.

Full list below.

Why airport food is expensive?

Of the 480 Rupees you pay for dosa+ coffee, only around 80 rupees will be for the food item.

Another 150 rupees goes towards airport rental expense, another 150 rupees to Adani's pocket and rest probably GST to govt.

This 5x pricing discourages people from buying food unless absolutely necessary. If they had kept it lower at say 140-150 INR, their sales could have gone up 3x and they would have still made same profit they are making today. But I guess they are more happy to have fewer customers who will pay more per order.

Mumbai airport pricing is also on same lines

What are your thoughts?

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Indigo and other airlines forcing paid seat selections

Almost all airlines are trying to squeeze extra 300-400 INR from each passengers during web check-in trying to trick or force them into selecting a paid seat.

Of course they claim free seats are available but the process is deliberately made complex.

If I opt for random seat allocation, we get a message that the boarding pass will be sent 3 hours prior to departure time. No SMS/email acknowledgement. Most people on twitter have complained that they never got those email or SMS.

Passengers are told "Web Checkin is mandatory" as per DGCA but no obligations on airlines to honor their part of the process and issue a boarding pass if passenger doesn't want to pay extra for seat selection.

Below is my recent experience with Indigo

As I was trying to do web check-in, I had two options- one, pay 100 Rs (this was ATR flight, 300 for Airbus) and get a boarding pass immediately, or select for random seat allocation.

I opted for random seat allocation and the process ended abruptly- no SMS or email that I've done my check-in and only seat allocation is pending. Airlines should immediately issue a boarding pass maybe with seat section blank. We are supposed to get an email with boarding pass and seat number 3 hour prior to departure time. Good luck with that.

Indigo will flag boarding pass of passengers who didn't pay for seat as XSAT. Which will directly inform anyone looking at your boarding pass that you are so kanjoos person who didn't want to spend extra 300 Rs for a seat. I feel this is insulting.

I have one flight with Akasa in September- will see how that experience goes.