Thread: darn nuts.... such a scam

I can comment on this one, being an aviation-type person who also has a nut allergy.

In my case it's cashews and pistachios, there are as you might expect different elements in different nuts, and if I accidentally eat those I now end up in hospital. The attacks (fortunately some years now since I had the last one) get worse each time as my resistance is lowered by each, so if it happened regularly it would eventually kill me.

It's not an unknown condition, so is something to be planned for. And an analysis showed that whereas nuts just nearby someone might not be thought to be a problem, 300 people all opening nuts packages when served with their drinks does indeed release enough nut dust into the confined space of an aircraft to be noticeable.

But I don't understand a carrier just doing something special if you mention the situation. British Airways stopped providing any nuts on board quite some years ago for this very reason.