Food through security

[prncess674]

You finally get it. While it may inconvenience other passengers if someone with a wheelchair shows up at the last minute, that's an inconvenience that they must tolerate. Federal law is intended to make it possible for individuals with a disability to travel without being subject to special burdens, such as requiring them to show up and board earlier than other passengers.

Likewise, if so instructed by the flight crew, you should tolerate the small inconvenience of not eating peanuts onboard, in order to prevent someone with a severe allergy from suffering a reaction and/or dying.



Incidentally - since it's become quite obvious that while you like to pontificate, you don't know much about the actual laws and regulations that apply to travel by passengers with disabilities - DOT rules provide that if a passenger needs assistance in deplaning, it does not need to be provided until all other passengers have left the aircraft. See 73 Fed. Reg. at 27620 (May 13, 2008). Not to mention that you must keep your seat belt buckled until the aircraft has completed any ground movements. See 14 C.F.R. § 121.311(b).

I'll keep my peanuts since they aren't banned. When it becomes against the law to eat peanuts on board I will stop.

 

[casper_jj11]

the accomodations for my family do NOT infringe on your rights so there is a big difference.

Just curious, but exactly what right of yours is being infringed by not being allowed to eat peanuts or peanut butter on an airplane. I realize that the Canadian and American Constitutions do have differences but I didn't realize that they differed that much.

Also kind of curious as to what basis you'd bring a lawsuit against the airline for being told you can't eat your peanut butter sandwich (as you mentioned earlier) .... it doesn't fall under negligence as you aren't injured by it, or breach of contract as your contract with the airline is to fly you from A to B

 

[prncess674]

Also kind of curious as to what basis you'd bring a lawsuit against the airline for being told you can't eat your peanut butter sandwich (as you mentioned earlier) .... it doesn't fall under negligence as you aren't injured by it, or breach of contract as your contract with the airline is to fly you from A to B

If an FA were to invoke Sec. 46504 and had me arrested because somehow my PBJ was impeding the service of the plane is lunacy and certainly wouldn't stand up in court. If I were arrested I would sue for the lost wages and attorney's fees.

 

[jsilvers]

Somebody bought up the situation of someone needing a service animal sitting next to someone with a severe animal allergy. What would happen in that situation.

Generally speaking, DOT guidance is that best efforts should be made to reseat them far enough apart that it isn't an issue, with rebooking one of the passengers being a last resort. See 73 Fed. Reg. at 23660 (May 13, 2008).

Don't they usually put the person with the service animal in the back of the plane?

No. A passenger with a service animal can sit anywhere they want, with the exceptions of (1) an emergency exit row, or (2) a location where the animal blocks the aisle. See 73 Fed. Reg. at 23661 (May 13, 2008).

 

[jsilvers]

If an FA were to invoke Sec. 46504 and had me arrested because somehow my PBJ was impeding the service of the plane is lunacy and certainly wouldn't stand up in court. If I were arrested I would sue for the lost wages and attorney's fees.

Good luck with that. Courts regularly defer to flight crews and reject claims against airlines by passengers that were kicked off flights and arrested. Just one example - Rubin v. United Air Lines, Inc., 96 Cal.App.4th 364 (2002), in which the passenger refused to follow directions given to her by the crew; a copy of the decision can be found online here.

 

[goofy4tink]

Well let's see, I was in meetings all day, rushed to the airport and didn't have time to stop to pick up dinner. I haven't eaten since my 7am breakfast meeting and the only food in my laptop case is a travel pack of PB crackers. You bet your bippy I am going to eat them. Until peanut products are legally banned from planes I will munch away. More times lately the plane is delayed on the ground and it could easily be midnight before I make it home. Like I said if you are so sensitive to peanuts then you should avoid all public spaces and only go places where you can control your airspace bubble.

Perhaps you need to be better prepared and put something else in your briefcase..perhaps you need to schedule your flights better so as not to be so rushed..can't be that pleasant being in meetings all day and then rushing to make a flight..been there, done that.
I am not sensitive to peanuts or peanut products, but I will glady munch of something else if it measn someone else is going to be more comfortable and safe. Just because you have a job that mandates you fly does not give you more rights than those that don't. In an enclosed area, sensitivities are going to be more easily aggravated. I also wish people wouldn't bath in perfumes before flying either.

Man, this has gone way off track people. It serves no purpose anymore...and I apologize to the OP, but I am shutting this one down. It is only causing arguments and hard feelings.

A word to the wise....if the subject of peanut butter on planes comes up again, the question will be answered and the thread closed..period.