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This has nothing to do with lacking compassion; it has everything to do with coddling people who fear a possibility that is so unlikely. There’s no potential lawsuit threat here, because airlines are not liable for your medical condition or your refusal to take precautions against it.
Numerous accounts of people dying from peanut allergies? Nonsense. Cite the confirmed reports if you want to be taken seriously.
If you think it’s not a hardship for other passengers to be denied peanuts based on the very small minority of peanut allergy sufferers, then it’s not a hardship for you to take responsibility for your own well being, no matter the form of transportation.
Instead, you want others to cater to your whims and unfounded fears. If you want peanuts to be replaced with… more »
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Could we show some compassion here? First of all, peanut allergies are real and can be deadly. There are numerous accounts of allergic people accidentally ingesting peanut products and dying. I’m sure the airlines is aware of the potential lawsuit in that. Beyond that, it is not a hardship for passengers to go without peanuts for a few hours on an airplane. Peanuts are one out of many, many possible snacks. Why would the airlines want to eliminate or endanger possible customers when they can so simply replace peanuts with something else?