Should A Passenger Dictate What Other Passenger Eat On Their Holiday Flight?

[Gromit]

A couple booked their daughter on a flight even though she had a nut allergy. Then walked the plane asking other passengers not to eat nuts.

The child didn't die so all is good. But they then complained bitterly about the airline.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkzzy8eqjo.
 

Take your sprog to Rhyl and no problem.

[Old_Geezer]

The comparison is with regards to the permitted action not the consequences. Consequences are for the individual to consider in advance.

 

Is it right or not to tell others they mustn't eat because you don't want them to ?

[newmodarmy]

The parents didn't ask people not to eat at all- just to avoid eating nuts.

I do wonder though whether anyone with an allergy is any more at risk on a plane than say on a train or in a restaurant. Obviously a restaurant can't be expected to ask people not to eat anything containing nuts

[THECORBYLOON]

Is your comparison valid?

Is asking folk not to consume any food at all for the entire flight similar to asking them not to consume food containing peanuts?

[CrapatCryptics2]

As its just one item cant they substitute some other snack to alleviate the issue.

[Ellipsis]

I remember very clearly the first time I was asked not to have peanuts on the plane. It was 2009. 

Since then, I have not received peanuts from an airline until, coincidentally, last week ... I was shocked! But in every other case I have only had nut substitutes, not nuts ... nutless in Seattle, and everywhere else ...

[Cloverjo]

So passengers are 'requested not to eat peanuts'. What happens if someone does open a packet of peanuts? Would the flight be grounded and the perp arrested, or would the potential victim just have to suck it up?
I carry a pack of peanuts in my handbag in case I'm stuck somewhere without food. 

[jno]

as in the links I posted, it's entirely normal for the airline to ask you to tell them if you're allergic; they will then tell other passengers and withdraw nuts from the menu.  I couldn't see anything on the Sun Express website saying what they do, so the woman did the sensible thing. The airline did not.

[ToraToraTora]

19:12 I just think it's a bit of a cheek knocking on the cockpit door and walking up and down the cabin badgering people. If I had a bag of nuts on me it's just the sort of thing that would make me open them.

[ToraToraTora]

If it was that bad you'd carry a medical standard mask at all times rather than expect and trust that the public play along. It's a modern disease to think that you or your kids are in any way significant in the scheme of things.

[Ellipsis]

Surely nobody wants to cause the death of a child for the sake of a bag of nuts.  Perhaps some people don't remember this case:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45623831

 

[andy-hughes]

TTT - There is no mention of 'walking up and down the cabin badgering ...''

That's exaggeration on your part because you have taken against these people. 

As I understand it, they spoke to people in their immediate vicinity, who passed the message on.

[bhg481]

Ellipsis - it's very clear from some of the posts here that there are some people who would be totally unconcerned about their actions killing a child.

[fender62]

diffcult one erm, if i had a child that was severly allergic to nuts, i probably would not fly with them, someone may have a sneaky nut or did not hear announcement or did not care, to risky. as an aside, i remember flying on boeing jumbos in the 70's had an upstairs with a bar, cigars cigarettes NUTS liquor, halcyon days.

[ToraToraTora]

bhg: "Ellipsis - it's very clear from some of the posts here that there are some people who would be totally unconcerned about their actions killing a child." - I am concerned about the parents that seem willing to risk their childs life on an unnecessary trip. If something was that dangerous to one of my children I'd not rely on the kindness of strangers to keep them safe. In this case it's the selfishness of the parents endangering the child.

[jno]

yes, they used to hide the corpses in the crew beds till landing, so the party could go on

[Ellipsis]

>  If something was that dangerous to one of my children I'd not rely on the kindness of strangers to keep them safe.

Oh really ... well let's hope that your future progeny never have to test that boast.

[piggynose]

For those of us who have never heard of one!!

EpiPen is the brand name of an auto-injectable device that delivers the drug epinephrine. It is a life-saving medication used when someone is experiencing a severe allergic reaction, known as anaphylaxis. EpiPen is just one of the brand names of devices known generically as Epinephrine Auto-Injectors

[ToraToraTora]

22:05 so you think so little of your "progeny" that you do rely in strangers to keep them safe? I see, tells me all I need to know. Right oh!

[Ellipsis]

Yes, not only for my progeny, but anyone else's, including yours. It's really not worth the aggro over a bag of nuts.

As jno posted at 19:26, other airlines (even rubbish ones) have a clear policy. It should have avoided the problem if in this situation SunExpress had been equally clear.

[Mozz71]

You are starting to sound like the sort of person who would insist on eating your peanuts just because you've been asked not to, and then blame everyone but yourself if the kid had a reaction.