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Thank you for your comment. Do you believe it would be sufficient to ban peanut products on flights only when an allergy sufferer discloses this prior to flight?
Should peanuts also be banned from places of employment for the same reasons? Should peanuts be banned from public areas? And is it also reasonable to ban all peanut-containing products from being brought on-board by passengers? Finally, should the same accommodations be made for those suffering from other allergies? Because using the logic offered by the above commenters (and others), the answers to all these questions should be yes – yet we can see this quickly becomes absurd.
No, you didn’t have a reaction to airborne peanuts: they’re heavier than air, so they can’t be airborne. Peanut dust could be airborne, but unless you were not taking any precautions for your condition, you weren’t at any great risk.
Nobody has ever died from anaphylaxis due to peanut allergies on a U.S. based airline. That is irrefutable evidence that the actual risk is so small as to be non-existent.
Your lifestyle isn’t be restricted by your allergy, it’s being restricted by you living in fear. You’ve taken the worst case scenario and assumed it to be a certainty, when in fact it’s not. Nothing is stopping you from traveling by air except your irrational fears. There are far greater risks in many other things you do every day, yet you’re… more »
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As I suffer from a severe peanut allergy, I am also for the banning of peanut products on airplanes. I can assure you that this is a very important issue; I myself had reactions to airborne peanuts while on airplanes. This makes traveling by air very risky if not impossible.
It is important that the general public be made aware of the lifestyle restrictions that this situation puts on those who suffer from the allergy. For example, being unable to travel by air can have a significant impact on professional development and career success. I am sure that we can all agree that for someone with a disability to be unnecessarily restricted in such a way is unjust.