Special meals for people with other dietary, religious and cultural needs (not food allergy) very rarely cause a life-threatening emergency if the wrong meal is served. It is not likely that a person’s physical health is greatly harmed from being served the wrong special meal. As a result, airlines are more likely to offer these special meals.
Some airlines do offer a nut fee meal. Even if a nut free meal is offered, we recommend you don’t eat it because:
- There is a risk that the passenger with food allergy will not get the right meal. Meals sometimes go missing or are given to another passenger by mistake. The passenger with food allergy could either get the wrong meal or not get a meal at all.
- There is no guarantee that the nut free meal will not accidentally contain nuts.
People can be allergic to any food, so nut free meals are not safe for people allergic to foods other than nuts.