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20 year old female expects airline to stop serving peanuts incase she has an allergic reaction....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7583375/A...
20 year old female expects airline to stop serving peanuts incase she has an allergic reaction....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7583375/A...
If there’s someone with a serious peanut allergy on a plane then it’s not uncommon for an airline to not sell/serve peanuts and ask passengers that they don’t consume any while onboard.
Seems like a sensible thing to do and no one is going to be harmed if they can’t eat some peanuts for a few hours.
It’s the civilised and decent thing to do.
Seems like a sensible thing to do and no one is going to be harmed if they can’t eat some peanuts for a few hours.
It’s the civilised and decent thing to do.
BlackLabel said:
If there’s someone with a serious peanut allergy on a plane then it’s not uncommon for an airline to not sell/serve peanuts and ask passengers that they don’t consume any while onboard.
Seems like a sensible thing to do and no one is going to be harmed if they can’t eat some peanuts for a few hours.
It’s the civilised and decent thing to do.
Agreed, but sadly quite a few people will see it differently.Seems like a sensible thing to do and no one is going to be harmed if they can’t eat some peanuts for a few hours.
It’s the civilised and decent thing to do.
Saleen836 said:
What do we all make of this?
20 year old female expects airline to stop serving peanuts incase she has an allergic reaction....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7583375/A...
Of Course, what the airline should have done is offer a steam cleaned Lear Jet, purely for her!!20 year old female expects airline to stop serving peanuts incase she has an allergic reaction....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7583375/A...
They could have taken the nuts offered as snacks off the plane, but, what about any residue left in the fabric of the seats from the previous flight, that becomes airborne when the passenger next to her sits down, is then breathed in by her, and she goes into shock?If she is so allergic, she has a responsibility not only to herself, but to others. Why should she alone affect everybody around her?
Because she's an Entitled and it's everyone else who should cater (not nuts), to her whims!
The airline are covering their arses, and so they should, but they have other passengers with their own needs and one of those needs is not to have their flight cancelled because of one person's special needs, that she left until the last minute to inform them of!
What she'll do now is keep it quiet, have an episode, and sue the airline / bus company, taxi, anybody else rather than suck it up (not nuts)
Probably on my own with this view so
BlackLabel said:
If there’s someone with a serious peanut allergy on a plane then it’s not uncommon for an airline to not sell/serve peanuts and ask passengers that they don’t consume any while onboard.
Seems like a sensible thing to do and no one is going to be harmed if they can’t eat some peanuts for a few hours.
It’s the civilised and decent thing to do.
Exactly, which would be a normal thing to do.Seems like a sensible thing to do and no one is going to be harmed if they can’t eat some peanuts for a few hours.
It’s the civilised and decent thing to do.
However, to wait until boarding the bloody plane to flag this and giving the airline no opportunity to make alternative arrangements for 99% of the other passengers means she is a stupid mare who needs to suck it up.
To give this situation some context, my son has a severe peanut allergy and when we were emigrating from the UK we rang and told the airline (from singapore) when we booked the tickets that he will need a peanut free meal due to his peanut allergy.
When we arrived at Heathrow we checked in using the machines but couldnt get a boarding card for him so we enquired with the help desk and they informed us that there was a problem with the booking and we would have to be seen by a senior manager.
The senior manager arrives and tells us that as the airline serves peanuts they cannot have my son board the plane... que one apoplectic wife as she had told them previously and they had allowed the booking to be made.
In the end the manager produced a waiver - which we had to sign there and then, to the effect that we would not hold the airline from singapore responsible for injury or death in the event of a reaction to peanuts whilst aboard their plane. Once this was signed we were issued his boarding pass and to continue our journey.
Whilst on the plane, we told the stewardesses not to offer peanuts to us because of his allergy - they weren't the brightest obviously as they offered them to me, my wife and his brother and every single passenger in the vicinity.
The silver lining to all of this is that we now know that he is not susceptible to airborne (forgive the pun) allergens because he didnt react to the peanuts that were being consumed around him.
I think since then (2017) the airline from singapore has stopped serving peanuts - and there is a mindset by most modern airlines not to serve peanuts on board anymore due to the increasing number of people with nut allergies in the world reaction.
When we arrived at Heathrow we checked in using the machines but couldnt get a boarding card for him so we enquired with the help desk and they informed us that there was a problem with the booking and we would have to be seen by a senior manager.
The senior manager arrives and tells us that as the airline serves peanuts they cannot have my son board the plane... que one apoplectic wife as she had told them previously and they had allowed the booking to be made.
In the end the manager produced a waiver - which we had to sign there and then, to the effect that we would not hold the airline from singapore responsible for injury or death in the event of a reaction to peanuts whilst aboard their plane. Once this was signed we were issued his boarding pass and to continue our journey.
Whilst on the plane, we told the stewardesses not to offer peanuts to us because of his allergy - they weren't the brightest obviously as they offered them to me, my wife and his brother and every single passenger in the vicinity.
The silver lining to all of this is that we now know that he is not susceptible to airborne (forgive the pun) allergens because he didnt react to the peanuts that were being consumed around him.
I think since then (2017) the airline from singapore has stopped serving peanuts - and there is a mindset by most modern airlines not to serve peanuts on board anymore due to the increasing number of people with nut allergies in the world reaction.
GT119 said:
I think it was all a ruse to avoid explaining herself for smuggling peanuts in the white dress of hers.
Whilst I get the "nobody will die if they don't eat peanuts for a few hours" angle, is she going to insist nobody eats nuts anywhere she goes? I guess planes have huge air re-circulation so maybe it's a bigger problem there. But this also happens on all modes of transport (save for bikes/walking).
(I once got a 3hr train from London and started to eat a packet of prawn cocktail crisps...the older lady sat next to me got into a panic and declared she had a shellfish allergy....explained to her they've never been near shellfish but that if it made her feel more comfortable I'd put them away...but I do wonder how I'd be if I was encumbered with such an allergy. I suspect I'd be making sure I used my own transport where I could fully control the conditions...she had no idea if the people behind us were eating a prawn sandwich etc).
Here is some interesting info on nut policies for different airlines
https://allergyfacts.org.au/images/pdf/Airline_com...
https://allergyfacts.org.au/images/pdf/Airline_com...
Saleen836 said:
What do we all make of this?
20 year old female expects airline to stop serving peanuts incase she has an allergic reaction....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7583375/A...
Can someone explain to me how we managed to get all these people with allergies?20 year old female expects airline to stop serving peanuts incase she has an allergic reaction....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7583375/A...
When I were a lad, no one had a peanut allergy.
BlackLabel said:
If there’s someone with a serious peanut allergy on a plane then it’s not uncommon for an airline to not sell/serve peanuts and ask passengers that they don’t consume any while onboard.
Seems like a sensible thing to do and no one is going to be harmed if they can’t eat some peanuts for a few hours.
It’s the civilised and decent thing to do.
Perhaps they would require more advanced notice than being told during boarding though?. After all the meals and snacks for the flight would have already been loaded by that point. Seems like a sensible thing to do and no one is going to be harmed if they can’t eat some peanuts for a few hours.
It’s the civilised and decent thing to do.
The Mad Monk said:
Can someone explain to me how we managed to get all these people with allergies?
When I were a lad, no one had a peanut allergy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46302780When I were a lad, no one had a peanut allergy.
Western lifestyles, in particular improved hygiene and lack of vitamin D are thought to play a role.
How is being on a bus with some evil b
d eating peanuts at her any safer than doing the same on an airplane?
If it is dangerous for her to be in the same room as a peanut perhaps she could stay away from those risk herself, not impose restrictions on everyone unfortunate enough to be in the same room as her.
d eating peanuts at her any safer than doing the same on an airplane?If it is dangerous for her to be in the same room as a peanut perhaps she could stay away from those risk herself, not impose restrictions on everyone unfortunate enough to be in the same room as her.
hman said:
Here is some interesting info on nut policies for different airlines
https://allergyfacts.org.au/images/pdf/Airline_com...
Interesting reading which reinforces the point that many countries pay little attention to allergies and expect people to take their own precautions. Make of that what you will.https://allergyfacts.org.au/images/pdf/Airline_com...
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