Gate Gourmet eyes Indian in-flight meal market

Gate Gourmet eyes Indian in-flight meal market: "The trouble-torn catering firm Gate Gourmet is eyeing the $50-million Indian in-flight meal market. The company, which is the world�s second-biggest airline caterer after Lufthansa�s Sky Chef, plans to enter India through a joint venture by the year-end.
�The US and UK markets are saturated. Asia is a growing market and within that, China and India are fast growing.
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India, particularly, is significant since airlines are now giving increased importance to food on aircraft,� Gate Gourmet vice-president business development division Asia/Pacific Peter Andrist told FE on the sidelines of the CAPA low-cost carrier symposium.
Lufthansa�s catering division Sky Chef is already offering its services in India with a full-fledged in-flight kitchen unit based in Bangalore. It recently announced plans to set up another unit in Hyderabad.
Gate Gourmet, which serves as many as 200 airlines worldwide including British Airways, was recently in the news because of an industrial dispute involving its Asian workers.
Mr Andrist refused to divulge the name of the Indian company it plans to start operations with. While in most global markets Gate Gourmet follows an outsourcing model, in India it plans to set up multiple catering facilities targeting metros as well as sec"