Originally Posted by
PhoenixRev
This has happened to me several times on the SNA to PHX flight.
In one instance, the crew had handed out peanuts to just about the entire plane before the lead FA announced that someone on board had a peanut allergy and all the little bags of peanuts had to be collected. So, the FAs came around and collected the bags of peanuts.
But, I do have to wonder how people with peanut allergies even get to WN gates at PHX T4 considering you half to go right past a Cold Stone Creamery that has a very strong peanut aroma wafting from it and through that end of the terminal.
I have to wonder about the people with allergies who refuse to tell anyone until the peanuts are handed out. They don't tell the airline, the GA, the FAs on boarding, and yet passengers have their peanuts taken away because the passenger says something
when the FA hands them a bag of peanuts?! Surely if they really are that deathly allergic they would say something to someone in advance? (AND they chose one of the only US carriers left which even serves peanuts)
Expecting 100-200 people not to eat (and many times US carriers don't just say 'no peanuts' but anything made in a facility which handles nuts) is not only antisocial, it's irresponsible if one truly has that type of allergy. People could be sleeping, wearing headphones, or not understand American English and may not realise that there is a peanut ban in place.