Leah Williams has a severe peanut allergy which she says Eurowings refused to accommodate.
Sometimes — deplorably — necessitate for help wo n’t get you anywhere , and you ’d better undulate up your sleeve and aid yourself . That ’s what Leah Williams , a passenger on a Eurowings flight of stairs from Düsseldorf , Germany toLondon ’s Heathrow Airporthad to do in rules of order to , well , invalidate a potentially deadly sensitized reaction .
Due to a severepeanut allergy , Williams ended up buying all the peanut packs available on base to preclude other rider from opening and eating them near her , Insiderreports . If that seems a short extreme , so is the candidate of having a full - blow spirit - threatening allergic chemical reaction . Williams had already previously stick out from a serious response on another flight , where she went into anaphylactic shock when a pack of peanut was unfold in her law of proximity .
According to Williams , she ask the Eurowings crew to make an announcement about the situation to all rider , but they turn away , claiming it was against the airway ’s policies , The Mirrorreported . She then decided to solve the problem at its antecedent , and carry on to purchase all goober snacks uncommitted ( to be exact , 48 of them ) for the toll of 168 euros , which is roughly $ 185 .
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" I said : ' I ’ll buy them all so you ca n’t service them . I do n’t worry how much it is . If you ’re not uncoerced to help me this is the only thing I can do , ' " she narrate Insider . " The worst thing was they actually asked if I want to take the peanuts , and I tell obviously not . "
Williams is now hear to get refunded for her leverage , and has send multiple e-mail and phone call to make that happen . However , so far , she has n’t go much other than a short apologia statement from the airline issued toInsider , which reads " We are very sorry that the flight with us did not go as smoothly as desire , and we regret any worriment this has caused Leah Williams . "
Williams , however , is looking to make a new policy out of her incident . Since Eurowings does n’t define if peanuts are available on its flights , she wants to check that that variety . " Ultimately , the good final result , and my design for this , is for Eurowings to change or update their policy and not sell peanuts on their flight of steps , " she told Insider .
