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What's Happening Now
August 5, 2010 10:02 am
You are partly right. I would be upset if we had to make an emergency landing because someone did not take the proper precautions when they have a serious allergy and thus caused a hundred plus other people to have a major delay.
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Although we always travel with epi-pens in case our fiver-year-old peanut & tree nut allergic child needs them, I think having some on board is a good idea, as long as crew are trained in the proper usage. Moreover, I think the crew need training on how to respectfully treat people with allergies or disabilities.
Since our son was diagnosed with the allergy one year ago, we have travelled several times on multiple carriers and have found the foreign carriers to be far less worrisome for those with nut allergies. In fact, none of the foreign carriers we used during that time even served nuts in economy. Our only trouble came with Delta. On flights to and from Atlanta to El Salvador, I requested a nut-free buffer zone as listed as an option on the Delta website. This request was not observed… more »
I find it amazing that people get so incensed about “their rights” to have nuts being infringed upon. I have a feeling that these are the same people who would be the first to complain when a plane has to make an emergency landing when a nut-allergic passenger goes into anaphylaxis. « less