Turkish Airlines removed 6-year-olds from the flight so she could serve peanuts on the plane
Family members have warned Turkish society that their daughter is allergic to peanuts.
According to them, the crew members did not agree to refrain from submitting them, and then even took them off the plane
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20/06/2022
Monday, 20 June 2022, 09:27 Updated: 10:06
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A British family claims to have been denied boarding by Turkish Airlines, or by its new name recently changed by Erdogan and we posted here, Türk Hava Yolları, due to their request not to serve peanuts on the plane as their six-year-old daughter is allergic to this food.
Iran Darwish was with his family on vacation in Cyprus.
They flew from London to Larnaca with British Airways and from there back to London from Ercan Airport in northern Cyprus via Istanbul.
Darwish told reporters he called both British and Turkish company a week before the trip, alerting to his daughter's allergy to peanuts.
Indeed in British society no peanuts were served at all during the flight from London to Cyprus.
Peanuts and nuts are regularly distributed in aircraft, but are a disaster for allergy sufferers (Photo: ShutterStock)
"The captain and senior staff want to keep serving peanuts"
But as they boarded their Turkish flight to Istanbul, Darwish mentioned the issue to crew, but received dull, incomprehensible glances.
Since he has a little command of the Turkish language, Darwish was able to explain the matter.
He said staff members asked him how far away from his daughter peanuts could be served.
Darwish explained that in an airtight environment like a passenger plane, the safest thing is not to serve nuts at all.
But one of the crew members replied, "Well, the captain and senior crew want to keep serving peanuts."
The conversation between the parties continued, and when Darwish offered to ask each passenger individually in the business class whether they would voluntarily refrain from eating nuts on a flight lasting only 90 minutes (from Cyprus to Istanbul) -
the staff refused.
A ground crew member then boarded the plane and signaled to Darwish to get off the plane.
He was later told that if the family wanted to stay on the flight, he would have to sign a waiver, according to which he accepts any responsibility if anything happens to his daughter.
Darwish refused to sign, the family was taken off the plane, and the airline refused to approve them to make a new booking.
Eventually, the family was forced to travel by car to the city of Larnaca in Cyprus, and from there board a direct flight to their home in London, via the British airline.
There were many witnesses to the incident on board the plane, including a journalist from the British Guardian.
The father received dull, incomprehensible glances from the staff.
Turkish Airlines (Photo: ShutterStock)
Not an easy situation for airlines
Matthew Clint, a reporter for the Live and Let's Fly website, who reported on the incident notes that this is not the first time such cases have surfaced.
For example, only recently a similar incident occurred at American Airlines, while an allergy passenger was dropped from the flight, because the flight attendants were required to distribute peanuts, as reported in Walla!
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The reporter points out that in such cases, the airlines are in a difficult situation.
On the one hand, they have a lot of responsibility, and on the other hand - one has to wonder why hundreds of people are restricted because of one or two passengers.
However, the reporter points out, the matter must be seen in the right perspective: Which is more important: the passengers' enjoyment of a bag of peanuts or another human life?
"I think Turkish Airlines has failed the family greatly," Clint notes.
"There is a certain irony in that flight attendants dress like surgeons in a hospital and serve only airtight sandwiches on long flights for 'health and safety' reasons, but are unwilling to accede to a request to give up nuts,"
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