Could people please not eat peanuts on this plane?

Skyline said:
Nope, actually translates to, I have already purchased some food that normally i can eat on the plane but now you have told me i cannot with no prior warning. if i had warning then i would have purchased something else. so please give me something i can eat or i will continue to eat my own food.
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Or stop being an arse, buy a sandwich and eat the nuts once you're off the aircraft?

It's their plane, you have to abide by their rules, and they certainly shouldn't have to give you free food!

Expecting them to give you free food is absolutely insane!
 
Reality Bites said:
Yes you were selfish.

If you didn't get fed within an hour of being on the flight, it would have been a very short flight meaning you could eat afterwards anyway.
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Obviously you didn't read the rest of my OP.

I ate dinner at 6 as usual on Thursday evening. We were supposed to be travelling on the 2AM bus to Gatwick but it was fully booked so had to go on the midnight one instead, this meant I got to their airport at around 2am with 5 hours left before my flight.

I haven't travelled abroad in 4 years and my stupid friend told me we could get a McDonald's at the airport. When we go there however nothing was open and we couldn't go through to the Duty Free area until the rest of our party showed up (they were meeting us at the airport) only they didn't get their til 5 am and by the time we got through check in, passport control and the metal detectors we only had 20 minutes in Duty Free and unlike my pal I refused to pay £4 for a bacon bap from Fatty Arbuckles (or whatever chain they had there) so opted for the nuts from the DF shop instead.

I'm not a big eater and can go without but it had been over 12 hours since I last ate at this point. When they announcement came I'd literally just open the bag and eaten a couple.

So for me personally it wasn't that I couldn't possibly go another two hours without them, it was just the culmination of events that led up to it that annoyed me.

Have you ever cracked open a beer or a sarnie and thought "I've been looking forward to this"? It was like that basically, of course I'm gonna have a bit of a grumble.
 
FabienO said:
Pretty selfish of him to have a nut allergy.
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Clearly no one is accusing the person of being selfish for simply having a nut allergy, nice strawman though.

It's the handling of it that I'm questioning....

1) Did the passenger inform the airline before the flight or did he wait until he got on board as the tannoy made it sound ("I've just been informed" was the opening line). If he did inform them, then I feel the airline should have said something at least in departures which would give time for people to buy other snacks. If he didn't then I'm sorry but I do think the passenger acted selfishly.

2) I'm still yet to hear anyone explain why it is unreasonable to expect people with such severe allergies to wear a Chinese style pollution face mask and/or wear plastic gloves whilst flying as opposed to expecting everyone else to moderate their behavior for them.

I guess my views on the incident are being guided a bit by a friend I know who has a million and one afflictions but plays of them for attention and sympathy. He has diabetes, eczma, bad eyes, a one bad kidney and a nut allergy. I went on holiday with him once and our whole schedule, everyday had to be dictated by his needs and after a few days of it, I don't care how morally righteous you are it starts to p*ss you off. He had to eat at certain times, fine but do they have to be so exact? For example we all to leave a Theme Park once but because he had to eat at 5:30pm, we wanted to stay another 15 minutes (thus he would have eaten at 5:45pm) and he wouldn't have it, started bringing up his 'condition' etc so we all had to go.
 
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Nexus said:
I think people are being a bit unfair here, given how serious a peanut allergy is and how easy it is to trigger. A pressurised cabin with recycled air on a plane is not your normal environment so the chances of an allergy being triggered are greater than usual.

At the end of the day, if somebody did have an attack, even if they had an epi-pen, I bet they would still make a landing or return to the departure airport. So if you had been asked to stop eating peanuts and carried on, you aren't doing yourself any favours if somebody did have a reaction.

You may have also noticed (or not) that planes don't serve nuts or nut based meals anymore.
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This tbh. We've got a few in our family that react extremely badly to nuts, I think the last place you'd ever want to have a problem would be up in the air, epipen or not.

Your not going to die from not eating nuts, they could from a reaction. Not hard to just wait for the in flight meal rather than risk it is it...?
 
Knowing someone who died following a reaction to peanuts (they were unaware a local takeaway had changed a recipe to include nuts when previously it contained none) I have to sympathise with the nut allergy sufferer. It's not a big deal to go without some peanuts for a few hours.
 
estebanrey said:
I'm not, that's the point. I'm not the one making statements that imply it.
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Well then, if you don't know for sure either way the only sensible thing to do is take precautions not to put someones life at risk.

Unless peanuts are more important than a life.
 
Scuzi said:
Look at it this way. Being stubborn and eating peanuts, in a worst case scenario, could result in the affected person becoming very ill, necessitating a diversion to the nearest suitable airfield for a medical reception, making your journey infinitely more difficult and stressful.
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Hang on, so what happens if I've sat in departures and had my grubby hands all over a bag of nuts and rubbed my hands down my jeans or spilled a load down my top.
I'm still getting on the plane, distributing 'dust'.

Also nut allergies are not limited to peanuts and in a lot of cases peanuts don't trigger an allergic reaction.

If someone is that sensitive then they should have a pen to administer a shot should they need it. It should not stop people eating nuts!
 
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