“Nuts in the Air”

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2010/06/will-uncle-sam-ban-peanuts-from-airline-flights-/95355/1

The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed a measure to ban or restrict peanuts on all domestic flights due to the common problem of passenger allergies. Unfortunately, this will only inspire terrorists to invent the fiendish nut bomb.

To reduce allergic passengers’ peanut exposure, airlines are already perfectly willing to start charging an outrageous fee for peanuts that most people will be unwilling to pay.

In the current spirit of airline customer service, commercial carriers would like to offer an alternative to peanuts, such as nothing it all.

Southwest Airlines already has a cost-effective plan for passengers who are allergic to peanuts. Flight attendants will approach passengers who brought their own non-nut snacks aboard and rip them out of the passengers’ hands to give to the nut-allergy person.