No More Peanuts

[Travels2mch]

I am also allergic to people who feel they just absolutely need to travel while they are sick. Exposing 100+ people to whatever illness is making them sick because, as we all know, it is the era of "it's all about me."

I agree, as I have walked on planes twice healthy and was sick by the time I got off.....but I do understand why people do this...in the day of non refundable tickets, many don't want to lose the money, and especially if they are going home...they just want to get home. Doesn't make it right, but may be a reason.

 

[700UW]

Just like the FAs who get penalized for being sick, it is a never ending cycle, since FAs are exposed to so many germs and they get sick, they can get fired for using too much sick time very easily.

 

[MarkMyWords]

I don't think that's the issue. What do we do when a customer brings his or her own personal giant bag of peanuts on the plane? What about a Snickers bar? My point is that you (in no way) can guarantee a "peanut free" flight unless you check every customer's pockets and bags before they enter the cabin.

I was thrilled when we got them back! Now its back to the same old bag of carbs we've had for the last five years. And as an open statement to the powers that be in Tempe, can we not offer a snack (for purchase) that actually has protein? The "Inflight Gourmet" $5 snacks are nothing but carbohydrates...and processed sugary ones at that. PLEASE, if you're pulling peanuts off the airplane, give us soynuts or some other source for actual nutrition.

There is a huge difference in someone bringing on a snickers bar and 150 people all opening two bags of peanuts at nearly the same time.

 

[REACC1]

OMG, is there a safe snack out there? I'm not sure but do these people have the same reactions to almonds? Retro Piedmont smokehouse almonds would be good if it doesnt have any ill affects. I don't recall any issues presented to PI back then. People really seemed to enjoy them.

 

[HPearlyretiree]

I think we need to drop napalm on all the peanut farms in America.

Because, someone who is allergic might accidently drive near the farm and die.

Yes, we all must collectively change the way we do everything to protect a handfull of people, because we can't ensure that they or their parents will take any responsibility to take care of themselves.

(700, that was satire)

 

[trvlr64]

This has to be the dumbest thread on here in ages.

Hey PINEY.....next time you go to the doctor for your prostate exam make sure he uses a nonlatex glove or better yet a yard stick!



Because you won't know if you have an allergy to latex until it's too late also.

It's all the same. Allergies to various substances appear at different times in our lives. I myself didn't suffer from any allergies until I started flying regularly in 1997. Now I have a whole host of things I have to be mindful of at the age of 42. Even my mother didn't know she was allergic to latex until a visit to the dentist a few years ago.

So big deal if they are removing peanuts from the flights. Be honest, who really cares that much about a few nuts?!

😉

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

Retro Piedmont smokehouse almonds would be good if it doesnt have any ill affects.

I don't think that almonds cause the problems that peanuts do. Those almonds were good, especially with Piedmont Punch!

And that Goody's powder was great for headaches! Just to think that airlines could once "dispense medication" like that. (OMG, I'm dating myself)

 

[700UW]

US Airways to stop serving peanuts
Associated Press
PHOENIX - US Airways will stop serving peanuts on its flights because of concerns about passengers who are allergic to the snacks.

The airline expects to exhaust its peanut supply this month and will then offer passengers pretzels or mixed nuts without peanuts.

Passengers may still bring their own peanuts or food items containing peanuts on flights.

"The flight may not be peanut-free, but we will no longer serve them," Valerie Wunder, a spokeswoman for US Airways Group Inc. said Saturday.

Several other major airlines have already stopped serving peanuts after peanut allergy groups expressed their members' fears of a dangerous in-flight reaction.

US Airways stopped serving peanuts in the late 1990s but began offering them after the carrier combined operations last year with American West Airlines, which served the snack to passengers, Wunder said.

"We haven't had any kind of backlash," Wunder said. "We are trying to help a large percentage of the population."

 

[PhxMama]

Once again, have any of you actually seen what happens to a person that has a severe peanut allergy? And we are not talking about someone that accidentally eats a food item with a peanut in it. I am talking about someone with an allergy so severe that their systen reacts just from the dust and oils in the air?

Part of the problem is that US East was a peanut free airline (in coach) and as a result of the merger, we were flying people with peanut allergies on flights were we said we were not offering peanuts. This caused more then a dozen cusotmer incidents. If we are going to serve peanuts, then the information needs to be out there so that those with allergies can find alternate transportation, or we can serve an alternative. US East was peanut free for years and I have yet to see anyone refuse to fly because we didn't offer peanuts.

Too bad rez was NEVER informed east was peanut free, in fact we were just notified last week again that we are NOT peanut free and not to advise that we were. I guess there were complaints but which side of the company's rez center took the call and what did they advise? Who knows? I guess peanut free it is. Im not a pretzel fan, they make me too dry. How about cheese and crackers? And maybe some whine to go with it!

 

[US1YFARE]

And maybe some whine to go with it!

oh boy, and do we know how to whine!!!!!

 

[PhxMama]

Would care to explain to whom you were referring? Was that a general comment about the board or anyone in particular? (Im feeling a little insecure tonight with the Suns only up by 10 points. Third quarter. Hoping for game 7 but Dirk is getting hot!)

 

[US1YFARE]

LOL...it was about "US" pax....

 

[SKY HIGH]

An aircraft cabin is NOT a sterile environment by any stretch of the imagination.

sky high states: Exactly!! It's a PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT.
Just like Mass transportation.

 

[Seatacus]

It's a PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT.
Just like Mass transportation.

Good point....... Do you think city buses could ever enforce the no-peanut rule?

 

[Breath_of_Fresh_USAirways]

So, as a diabetic, I pack my own snack -- a peanut butter sandwich and an apple. What if I happen to be seated next to Mr. Allergic 2.Peanuts, and there's no other seats left on the aircraft, who's "condition" trumps the other?

Let's hope Mr. Peanut brings his meds because I ain't risking my health for his. I'm doing what I need to do to take care of my health-needs; it's a free country (or we're trying to keep it that way, anyways, despite the special interest groups and the lawyers) and he had better be prepared to take care of himself, too.

Kind of off-topic, should we ban pax from bringing their own liverwurst and onion sandwiches on board? I was on a red-eye from LAS to PIT not too long ago and dozing comfortably up against the wall (with my own travel pillow, thank you) and about an hour into the flight the person in the window seat in the row behind pulls something out of their carry-on and crinkle, crinkle, crinkle and OMG! What is that smell??? Yet, it was a strangely familiar stench -- it's, it's OMG! Liverwurst & onions! I thought I was going to lose my dinner. I had to wake up the rest of my row and get up and use the lav and take as long as possible just to get away -- and also to have a look and to see if my great-autie Dot had been reincarnated and was sitting behind me...