So, you have a child with a severe allergy. This is bad, of course and most people will have a degree of sympathy. You expect the rest of the world to adjust, though. Ah, maybe not so much sympathy.
The parents of a nine-year-old with a life-threatening energy claim they may lose out on their £19,000 holiday to Florida, all because Virgin is refusing not to serve dishes containing eggs on the flight.
The rest of the flight is expected to adjust. Now, you would think that having a child with such an extreme allergy, they would have checked all this before spending the money.
Now the family is anxious and torn over whether to cancel their long-awaited getaway and flush thousands down the drain – or risk their daughter’s health.
Um… See above.
But now they say the future of their holiday all relies on the airline’s menu.
I’m presuming that they have checked with Ron DeSantis to make sure that Florida is an egg-free zone.
My sympathy evaporates when people expect the rest of the world to bend over backwards to adapt. They are the ones who need to adapt, not everyone else. They are the ones being selfish here.
‘On this occasion, we were able to seat the family at the back of economy, away from the meals being served in Upper and Premium, which contain eggs, as well ensuring all the cabin crew are aware of the allergy whilst also advising the family to bring their own food on board.’
I’d say that’s a perfectly reasonable response.
Leave the kid at home with the grandparents, go on holiday. Sorted.
Exactly! Trying to blackmail the airline with the help of the media is despicable.
Why wouldn’t they bring their own food? If the allergy is that bad, why would you take any risks, especially when in the air?
Also, how do those stories even get into the papers in the 1st place?
I wonder that sometimes. I presume they fed it to them in the hope of getting VA to do something.
They probably put it on face book or tik tok and the ‘news’ picked it up from there
My mother is allergic to cheese. She doesn’t expect everyone else to not eat cheese or anything containing cheese, she avoids it and makes sure none of her food contains cheese. It’s a system that’s worked for a very long time.
It seems to me that Virgin have offered a sensible and reasonable solution to this problem. It’s just the girl’s parents seem to want to get some publicity to show the world what overprotective, entitled, drama queens they are. The airline doesn’t have to change its menu, which I imagine would cost it money, nor is it required to.
I take it Disneyworld Florida is egg free?
Presumably.
Disneyworld Florida might be egg free but if you go to California then be warned there’s a surfeit of nuts.
Whilst dealing with a child with allergies or a religiously restricted diet it’s a bad idea to get too arsey lest you make people who could help those with such needs less willing to help those with similar requirements.
From what I can see the airline did the best they could but there’s no way that this family’s demand that the whole flight bend to their will could in any way shape or form be considered as reasonable.
Pretty much my position. The natural reaction in future will be raised hackles.