I was on a flight from DFW to SFO yesterday and was in an aisle seat on row 27 (yeah, lol poor why don't you fly first class.)
One of the flight attendants made an announcement to rows 22-25 that there was a person with a severe nut allergy within three rows of them and to use discretion when considering consuming nut products (I don't remember their exact words). A similar announcement was made for rows 26-28 moments later.
Between the two announcements one person in row 25 said something that I didn't hear to the flight attendant and the attendant responded "I can only say that discretion be used" or something to that regard and then he addressed rows 26-28 with the same original statement.
By this time it was obvious who the nut allergy person was and we could easily observe that he wasn't wearing any kind of mask or other device to protect himself due to his claimed severe allergy.
The guy in the middle seat next to me cracked open a bag of almonds and said "I'm hungry and just paid $14 for these in the terminal, F that guy."
The flight continued without anyone dying.
My issue is if that someone is claiming a severe allergy, shouldn't they take physical measures to protect themselves in a closed environment such as an airplane and not expect everyone else to accommodate them? I'm a tall person and economy seats don't provide me with enough room to be comfortable but I don't expect others around me to make their travel worse to accommodate me by not reclining their chair or something, I just deal with it. Like an allergy, it's not something that I can do anything about.
One of the flight attendants made an announcement to rows 22-25 that there was a person with a severe nut allergy within three rows of them and to use discretion when considering consuming nut products (I don't remember their exact words). A similar announcement was made for rows 26-28 moments later.
Between the two announcements one person in row 25 said something that I didn't hear to the flight attendant and the attendant responded "I can only say that discretion be used" or something to that regard and then he addressed rows 26-28 with the same original statement.
By this time it was obvious who the nut allergy person was and we could easily observe that he wasn't wearing any kind of mask or other device to protect himself due to his claimed severe allergy.
The guy in the middle seat next to me cracked open a bag of almonds and said "I'm hungry and just paid $14 for these in the terminal, F that guy."
The flight continued without anyone dying.
My issue is if that someone is claiming a severe allergy, shouldn't they take physical measures to protect themselves in a closed environment such as an airplane and not expect everyone else to accommodate them? I'm a tall person and economy seats don't provide me with enough room to be comfortable but I don't expect others around me to make their travel worse to accommodate me by not reclining their chair or something, I just deal with it. Like an allergy, it's not something that I can do anything about.