EagertobeinWDW
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2012
I remember once on a Southwest flight that they announced that they wouldn't be serving snacks of any kind because there was a person with a severe allergy and everything's been processed in a place with peanuts and for people to please not open/eat anything with peanuts for safety reasons. I heard quite a few people grumbling because there's a store in Midway airport that apparently has good nuts, but otherwise everything went well.
I think that was us. I flew out of Chicago Midway with my daughter who has had multiple anaphylactic reactions to traces of 4 foods, including peanuts. The flight attendant watched me wipe off every surface with wipes that my daughter might touch and then sit with 4 Epi Pens and albuterol on my lap. They had assured me earlier that they had already arranged not to serve peanuts on the flight. SW's backup snack, though, does contain traces of peanuts. I never said a word about their backup snack, but the flight attendants announced that no snacks would be served because of a passenger with severe peanut allergies, my daughter. Loud grumbles erupted. The flight attendant quieted the protesters sitting directly behind my daughter when she explained that they simply didn't want to have to make an emergency landing. I can appreciate simply reacting, but I also was quite touched that some of the loudest protesters who complained to the flight attendant did soon piece together that they were talking about passenger at issue was the small girl with her seat encased in a pink crib sheet directly in front of them. I was touched that they then seemed to go to lengths to express sensitivity and compassion to her and me. SW won my heart that day.