Nov. 18--Nuts can pose a serious threat to allergy sufferers, and increased travel during the holidays increases that risk, said Naperville's Amy Wicker, founder of AllergySafeTravel.com.
Wicker's daughter suffers from severe nut allergies.
Nut-allergy sufferers -- and parents of children who are sufferers -- don't want to infringe on other passengers' rights, she said, but it's a safety issue.
"We simply are asking that airlines make an onboard announcement that passengers should refrain from opening nuts or nut-based snacks for the duration of the flight," Wicker wrote recently on her site. "We would also like to see airlines create a buffer zone within the plane that disallows any nuts or snacks with nuts."
Wicker noted that four airline passengers went into anaphylaxis on planes during the summer, with three of those flights making emergency landings as a result.
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