Regional airline Flybe is to stop serving nuts or nut-based products on its own-operated flights to prevent allergic reactions.
The move comes after plans were revealed for Natasha’s Law, named for a teenager who died of anaphylaxis after eating a baguette she had brought onto a plane.
Flybe operates more than 143,000 flights a year, carrying 9.5 million passengers. Its nut ban begins on July 1.
Chief commercial officer Roy Kinnear said: “Passenger safety is our number one priority, and this extends across all aspects of our own operation.
“That is why we take the issue of nut allergies extremely seriously and, as an additional measure to those already being taken, have now removed all peanuts and nut-based products from our on board Café Flybe menu.
“We will also, of course, continue to take the existing preventative measures we have had in place for many years to further reassure those passengers who advise us they are at risk.
“Nevertheless, despite all the measures we might take it should be stressed that no public environment can ever be guaranteed to be 100% ‘nut-free’.”
The UK Government this week announced plans to make it law in England and Wales for food producers to clearly label anything containing traces of nuts. Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, 15, collapsed and died in July 2016 after eating a Pret a Manger baguette which was not labelled as containing nuts.
