If you have a child with nut aLlergies and travel by plane(UPDATE)

How do you handle it? We are supposed to go to fla in 2 weeks. My granddaughter is highly allergic to tree nuts (peanuts are ok). I found out that one of jet blues snacks is a small package of mixed nuts!, I spoke to someone I know who is a flight attendant for jet blue. She said to notify them at the gate. They will set up a buffer zone, one row in front and one in back of us where they will not serve the nuts and ask the people not to eat nuts.She also said they have a new filtration system on all jet blue planes. we are afraid this is not enough to keep my granddaughter safe on the flight. We are concerned about it being passed thru the air system. Anyone have any feedback? Should we be concerned? She's going to call jet blue and ask if they would consider not offering that nut snack on our flight. She is also going to call the allergist to get his opinions. I'm afraid my daughter will want to cancel our plans. Of course I don't want to do anything that will jeopardize my granddaughters health/safety.

UPDATE: My daughter called Jet Blue last night. The woman was very nice. She told her that instead of staying in the seats we reserved (in the middle of the plane with people ALL around) she said we can have the first row going down and the last row coming back. So we won't be in the middle of the "crowd". She also said they do serve a nut mix on the flight but we can talk to the gate attendant as well as the crew and ask if possible if they can NOT give out that one particular snack. They offer 5 or 6 others. People can live without nuts for a 2 1/2 hr. flight!! She said they will also ask the people in 4 or 5 rows behind us (and in front of us coming back) not to eat nuts and will not offer their nut mix to those people. She also said they have a new filtration system on the plane so not all the air is recirculated. Just hoping for a safe flight.

Message edited 10/18/2013 11:51:37 AM.

Re: If you have a child with nut aLlergies and travel by plane

We just flew Southwest and they made an announcement that someone on board had an allergy and they would no serve peanuts and asked anyone to refrain from eating nuts on board.

Re: If you have a child with nut aLlergies and travel by plane