Air Canada ordered to provide nut-free seats

Are we going to have specific seats for every allergy?

 

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That sounds great. I'm allergic to children and fat people.

 

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Hardly. But nut allergies are very real and can be life-threatening. However, most who are allergic know they are - so I see this as serious over-kill. In truth, it's just to prevent lawsuits.

 

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hmmm, I wonder if they get to board first. I think I might have a peanut allergy...unless I need a note from my doctor.

 

The thread title is just overwhelming - it has rendered me nearly incapable of providing a coherent response...

FROFLMFAO!!!
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Seriously though, considering "Together with its regional carriers, the airline operates on average more than 1,375 scheduled flights a day" (wiki) and the number of complaints (2, since 2006 according to the article cited in the OP), it would seem to be a very small incidence of complaints to warrant such a policy change.

If you assume an average of 100 passengers per flight * 1,375 flights per day * 365 days per year * 3 years, that would equate to 150,562,500 passengers - out of which two people complained, and you would end up with 0.0000013% complaint ratio!!

For this we install a "nut-free zone"? (Still can barely type that phrase... lol) It seems like an unprecedented change in such a large corporation's policy based on so small a number of affected people. Can anyone else think of any comparables? Talk about the power of the minority!

This would mathematically equate to less than 5 people changing the policy of the entire USA government. (unless I've totally screwed the maths, it's a lot of 0's there...)

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Obviously, if implemented, there are going to be costs associated in order to accomodate the people with these allergies. These costs are going to have to be passed on to the rest of the passengers, of course. How does society go about protecting the few at the expense of the many? Hardly an original question, but the case at hand raises the issue again.

I mean, 1 out of an estimated 75,281,250 passengers complaining?

WTF?

 

Probably not. Lots of people have allergies. But some of those allergies probably wouldn't be on a plane. Like Dust or Mold.

 

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Canada takes their nuts seriously. I think shorty said something about nuts not being allowed in their schools. Wouldn't want a kid to get nuts on their hands and then transfer that to their mouth.

 

It true this country bends over backwards for it's lowest common denominator.

Air Canada fucking blows anyway. They treat you like shit. If you fly in Canada - fly "WestJet".

 

IF you got peanut allergies - wear fucking gloves and put a paper bag over your head and live in shame for having the shiitiest genes on earth.

 

The severity of the consequence isn't the only factor here, though. The probability of it occurring is also important.

 

Come on, Orleander :bugeye:

lol Do I have to correct you yet again?

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They could send on an employee with a severe nut allergy to test the seats.
Kind of like one of those canaries coal miners used to take with them.

 

Dont serve NUTS on the damn plane.

 

Maybe. But the chances of a death occurring because of it are pretty low, as evidenced by a previous poster pointing out that the airline has had only two complaints since 2006.

 

We don't kill them Bells, but the onus of their survival depends on THEM and their family, not the whole society.

My cousin had the peanut(any nuts actually) allergy and he simply stayed away from them, at christmas time, he did not sit at the table that had a bowl of nuts.

His intelligence overcame his weakness. It's a natural process human beings have been doing for at least 100000 years. Now we need to make the "world" safe for the lowest common denominator? No we don't.

 

But I like nuts.

 

Maybe they could get a pair of chimps on every flight and have them on standby to retrieve any nuts that a person might accidentally ingest.

 

Why does anyone who doesn't have a peanut allergy care? I don't see the injustice here.