Nut problem for Thomsonfly
20.04.08
When a passenger with a severe nut allergy told flight attendants of his condition on a flight to Gatwick Airport last weekend, they went to extraordinary lengths to ensure his safety, the Telegraph reports. A tannoy announcement warned fellow passengers not to eat any nuts or even open a cereal bar for fear of triggering an anaphylactic reaction. But the cabin crew ruined all their good work during the in-flight meal when they began handing out puddings topped with muesli and a label that said: ‘May contain nuts.’
The newspaper reports that, when travellers boarded the plane in Geneva last Saturday for their journey back to Gatwick, staff from Thomsonfly announced: ‘One passenger has a very severe nut allergy. Could no one either eat nuts or even open a packet of nuts while on board.’
A passenger who was on the flight, Marcus Primhak, from Cardiff, told the Telegraph: ‘We were flying back from a skiing holiday and were really hungry. First they asked us not to eat any nuts. We had some cereal bars but put them away. But when they served us the meal we had a look at the fruits of the forest yoghurt and saw it had all this muesli on top and the label said it contained nuts.’
A spokesman for Thomsonfly apologised for upsetting passengers, and said the yoghurt had been incorrectly labelled. He told the newspaper that the yoghurt contained muesli but no nuts.
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