Nancy Love Myrick

I believe having anyone with a life threatening food allergy in an airplane is dangerous and accommodations should be made. I think peanuts is a large one and I believe it would be easy to not serve them or at least have a policy in place to keep people with that food allergy safe. Southwest seems to do it very easy and that is the airlines we fly, the only airline we fly after our horrible experience with American Airlines which leads me to another point. I think there will be much less discrimination and harassment with a set policy in place. I know it has been my experience on several occasions that we were forced to explain over and over in front of my son how sever his allergy is just to be able to get on early and be able to wipe down a seat or to secure a safe seat at the whelm of a flight attendant. I think just education for the airlines would be tremendous. I think that if any pilot or flight attendant had any idea of what a peanut could do, they would not what any person sitting next to a peanut or any food allergy that could put them at risk...it is the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life. If you have ever seen or learned about it, you never want it to happen to you or around you. I really hope the DOT makes a decision to pursue this and not base anything on opinion but on facts gained from allergist and from the awareness of this growning and very serious problem.