After thinking about it today, I decided I am going to send them back a copy of their letter, with carefully worded responses to the points they make. For example, regarding providing variety to their customers--unless a customer flies several times a week, rotating to provide variety will have no effect. Furthermore, I have known no person without food allergies that chooses their airline based on the snack that is served.

I got that same reply today in the mail. I'm glad that they have at least taken note of the fact that a number of us have contacted them about this issue. I hope that even more folks can write to them.

i emailed my entire address list and asked them all to send a quick not.
12 so far have done it.
just think if we all did this

I got a reply from US Air that they are re examining their peanut policy however it did state that even if they changed it they have enough peanuts to last until mid summer! Wow they sure buy in bulk! I said better then, then not at all but it was sort of used in the context of throwing hands up in air and saying since it will take so long to use our available peanuts,.... well maybe we should keep using them, really the reply was odd.
Susan

as mentioned in another thread about this
they could donate those items to the gulf releif or soldiers in iraq.

We have just received a letter from USAIRWAYS as well. It's a basic letter that most of us have received. One sentence reads, "We have received number of letters and emails from customers who are concerned about the potential offering peanuts as a snack, and we are currently evaluating the snack selection for possible changes."
How long does currently mean? Six weeks, 6 months, and year? I do believe they have board meeting once a week I would think! We need to stay on them folks. It sounds like a possible Politically Correct statement they are trying to make! The letter was signed by Timothy Graham Office of Consumer Affairs

I don't understand the NEED to serve peanuts on a flight. People can't go a few hours without having a peanut while flying? Is it a necessary part of leaving the ground, having a bag of peanuts? A different snack cannot be substituted instead? What's wrong with pretzels? They know it could kill people, yet they do it anyway? Dumb.

Quote:Originally posted by Tom:
[b]I don't understand the NEED to serve peanuts on a flight. People can't go a few hours without having a peanut while flying? Is it a necessary part of leaving the ground, having a bag of peanuts? A different snack cannot be substituted instead? What's wrong with pretzels? They know it could kill people, yet they do it anyway? Dumb.[/b]
I was told by Southwest last year that they still serve peanuts b/c it's how they began their slogan "Fly for Peanuts" (as in, it's cheap) sort of thing. I had found Southwest to be accomodating in not serving peanuts on my flights, but the hassle was too big and their was residue everywhere. Plus, sometimes the flight attendants were nasty about it (even though they didn't serve them).
but yeah, no kidding...
Adrienne
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30-year old survivor of severe peanut/tree nut allergy

I agree. Even before I had a child w/ a peanut alllergy I had always wished to get something other than pretzels or peanuts...YUCK!

We just returned last night from Disney -- on US Air. We discovered on the flight down that they were serving peanuts. When we booked this trip months ago, we checked and saw nothing about peanuts. Plus we had flown this airline before without incident. Fortunately, they pulled the peanuts before too many were open and an antihistamine handled our daughers possible reaction. We called the airline and the reservation person told us "oh no problem I can make a note and the return flight will be safe." We checked when we got to the gate to return home and they were serving peanuts. Apparently, she had not used the correct code for catering. We asked that they not serve the peanuts -- it was a short flight under 2 hours. They said they wouldn't do that. We asked they pull our bags so we could fly home on another airline. After the captain realized that would take a while he told the flight attnedants to pull the peanuts and we were able to come home.
This is shocking to us. How an airline that services Orlando - and thousands of children can choose to serve peanuts is beyond me. We will not use US Air again for personal or business reasons.