Would you eat a packet of nuts on a plane?

A flight I was on earlier in the year made an announcement for us not to eat nut products as someone with an allergy was onboard. I think you’re told when you can’t have them.

No, whether there’s an announcement by crew or not. Even my most selfish nut loving relative doesn’t do this as he doesn’t want to risk plane being diverted ‘ruining his holiday’.

Even if not anaphylactic, allergy sufferers may vomit (on or beside you) copiously (guess how I know!!) so best avoided for everyone’s sake.

I’m shocked. Why would I assume everyone is allergic every time I’m in a public place? If someone on a plane has a severe allergy they’ll alert cabin crew who will announce. But I’ve never even heard such an announcement! So why should allergens just be automatically banned? And then where does it end? Never heard of such a concept of not being allowed certain foods on the plane. Saying this as a mum whose kid has allergies. I wouldn’t expect ppl to automatically never eat those allergens on a plane! There’s no law or policy and it’s definitely not assumed!

I’m forever sending nuts in with the dc, I make flapjacks with peanut butter for snack. We’ve never been asked not to and as far as I am aware there are no issues. If someone with an allergy severe enough that they’d be worried started they’d send an email round to say now nut free.

Yes I would.

Sorry for all the typos. My phone seems not to like the word "nut"!

Sorry to hear about your allergy, which must make life difficult at times.

But (this is a genuine enquiry to you and any other but allergy sufferers reading), surely if you are on a flight and your allergy is such that any consumption of nuts would endanger you, you say something to the airline or the crew, so they can announce it? You don't just leave it to chance and hope nobody brings any?

I have often been in but free flights and of course always observe that, but it has honestly never occured to me that I should avoid huts on flight unless specifically asked to. And now I don't know if I should feel guilty?

I genuinely thought there would always be an announcement if it was a problem.

TBH, I think all planes should be nut free. And I don't have an allergy. There are so many easily available alternatives.

It wouldn't totally remove the risk (as others have said, nut traces in other things), but it would reduce it.

I’ve not been given any free nuts on a plane in many years. We all know nuts on a plane can be dangerous, so why not just avoid buying them to eat on a plane? To me, that makes the most sense, even if not told otherwise. There are endless snack options.

Just to add my own experience here - I’m an airline pilot operating long haul flights and we serve nuts on every flight, as well as various dairy products including cheese, yoghurts, milk in tea. We also frequently serve prawns and usually have hummus somewhere on board too. In over 25 years of flying I have never had to divert and nor have any of my colleagues, and though I have often been informed a passenger has an allergy and is carrying an EpiPen we have not had to use one on any of my flights. A diversion is a huge thing, and we take all actions possible to avoid them. However this does not include routinely banning all possible allergens (or even just the one people are being so vociferous about here.) We do have protocols in place to assist passengers with an allergy, and if it is correct to do so we do not serve allergens in the cabin a person with allergies is in. But there can be up to 4 separate cabins on our flights.

There is considerable hyperbole here about the likelihood of diversion.

Why
if anyone has got a serve allergy they should let crew know and the can announce it then I wouldn’t dream of eating them

Because not all big corporations give a shit.

Could be either.
Maybe next time there’s someone on board with a nut allergy, crack open your old free packet & then, if they have an anaphylactic reaction, just explain how ‘overly dramatic’ you think they’re being.

(In reality, given you didn’t eat them on the last flight for whatever reason, I’ll presume you can survive one flight without nuts if asked).

But if nuts are so dangerous, why are they given out, for free, on board. If the risk of a death or diversion was so high, they wouldn't do this. It wouldn't cost them anything to switch to say, crisps, so the risk must be minute.

No I wouldn’t just in case and also because there are so many other things I could eat.

We used to serve warmed up nuts when I was a cabin crew a few years ago.

Yes unless the crew had said it was a nut free flight
I might check with the person next to me though

Really?
you think they should stay home and not travel the same as anyone else????

I'm preparing my carry on bag ahead of a flight tomorrow and found a little bag of complimentary airline peanuts that I must've saved from the last flight. Either Malaysia Airlines doesn't mind the odd medical diversion and dead body, or you're being ridiculously dramatic.

No. Because I prefer my flights without medical diversion or dead bodies sat next to me. We fly quite a bit, and I must say more often than not the crew advise of a nut allergy on bored. It’s really really common & I can go x hours without one item for the sale of someone’s life.

I wouldn’t, in the same way that I wouldn’t send my DD to school with them in her pack lunch. I think it’s just not worth it in a plane with enclosed spaces and no access to medical assistance in an emergency

I had a few friends whose children had allergies. I would always ensure my child didn’t eat those specific foods around them. One simple change by me, made life much easier for that person for a short space of time

Because I don't fly very often I didn't know the no nut rule, too be honest I thought it was the noise of someone munching the nuts, like someone eating crisps in the flicks, didn't think of allergies.
I've never eating nuts on a plane but I have eating a Toblerone does that count?

They might have HEPA filters but how often do the filters get replaced? Air flow inside planes is low in any case, with insufficient air changes per hour to completely eradicate the risk.
Hence airplanes are a place where tightly fitting masks make a lot of sense, as you can't rely on the HEPA or air changes to keep you safe from airborne viral particles (I have yet to see CO2 levels below 1500 ppm inside a plane, and it's usually much higher when they are on the ground).

There isn’t really a ‘that allergic to nuts’. Reactions vary depending on lots of things— the amount of allergen consumed, how it was cooked in some cases, how healthy you are at the time, so if you’re tired or battling a cold it can all have an impact. Someone can easily just be having mild reactions and then one day have a very severe one.

Also, never being able to travel by air has a serious impact on your life. It’s very easy to say ‘don’t fly’, but it’s very limiting in reality, and usually not necessary.
People say to never eat out too. That also has a negative impact on how you live.
Most people with allergies try to be as careful as they can without locking themselves away from life.

Yes, people are overly irrational about this topic. If you are that bothered about people with allergies you should be upset if they are serving fish and dairy onboard. From allergy uk:

“Nuts are often considered a risk, but the reality is that nut allergens are usually not airborne. The real concern lies with particles on surfaces, which can indeed pose a risk for those with severe allergies.
Shellfish and dairy allergies can be more problematic since they can trigger reactions through airborne particles, yet these issues don’t receive as much attention. “