Posted on 11/07/2023 6:53:31 AM PST by dynachrome
Delta Air Lines is backing one of its flight attendants, who is accused of discrimination for failing to make allergy accommodations for a traveler on a flight from New York City to San Diego.
When a California family asked that no almonds be served on the Oct. 2022 flight due to a teenager’s allergy, the flight attendant denied the request, according to a complaint filed to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
Deborah Gianulis and her mother, Deena Gianulis, filed the complaint in Oct. 2023 on behalf of Deborah Gianulis’ teenage son, identified only as K.C.
As the complaint states, the family requested they have the opportunity to wipe down K.C.’s seating, that Delta make an announcement alerting passengers that someone with a nut allergy was on board, and that Delta refrain from serving almonds during the flight.
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Exactly. I carry almond/peanuts/cashews as snacks when I fly.
From the article:
Additionally, peanut dust is relatively heavy, Hoyt said, so it does not go airborne — “it simply falls down.”
Dr. Natasha Bhuyan, a family physician in Phoenix, Arizona, agreed that the risk would be minimal if other passengers were given peanuts.
“Other passengers eating peanuts in a different spot of the plane putting an allergic person in danger is unlikely,” she told Fox News Digital.
They would have to basically scrub the plane between flight and serve no nuts or any foods that can stimulate allergies in order to meet this demand.
In my opinion, if you are severe off in your need to have accomodations, drive.
The tyranny of the outliers. How about this? They shouldn’t fly, if that is their expectation.
I’m guessing that 90% of these nut allergies in children are because of a mom who is nuts to begin with. Made up for attention. Like tranny moms.
If you and your child are afraid of the world around you, then stay at home in a bubble.
I would bet this mother complains about EVERYTHING.
I was thinking that myself. Mom is the problem.
Poor bubble boy.
Going nuts over nuts
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.
Completely preventable had the family planned in advance. Only let family members sit next to the affected. Oh, and wear a mask. 🤣
Can’t the afflicted person just wear a mask so they don’t breathe in the allergen particles? Wait, what? You can still smell the allergens through the mask? Which could still trigger a panic attack?
Darn, thought that was maybe a solution.
Totally agree.
Thanks to the internet , every freak psycho, wierdo, antisocial personality and narcissist, now has a voice to trigger others and push other unstable personalities over the edge of sanity.
If a person has such lethal allergies that being in public harms them then perhaps it is up to the person to make their own accommodations.
It’s all about ME.
Inconvenience everyone else.
Kids are supposed to play in dirt, and be exposed to germs, that’s how you build an immune system.
I suspect the mother tried to raise the kid in a sterile environment, and never allowed the immune system to fully develop.
No one HAS to fly, especially a child without work obligations.
A neighbor’s child has a severe nut allergy. Mom and Dad carry Epipens everywhere. The only accommodation they ask for from airlines is to board in the first group, so they can wipe-down their seats and not inconvenience others trying to board the plane.
They say others eating nuts is not a hazard to their child.
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