College Student Removed From Flight After Mentioning Mild Allergies

Jeanne Marie Hoffman November 22, 2014 Flights, News 4 Comments

I’ve written before that one of the dangers of mentioning your allergies on-flight isÂ that you could be removed from the aircraft if the flight attendant overreacts.

A senior at Villanova University learned this the hard way when she asked if there were any anti-histamineÂ on board. Â According to NBC Philadelphia, she was removed off the US Airways flight as a precaution and was rebooked on a flight the next day.

Villanova is my alma mater and a classmate of mine was the reporter on the scene:

What do you think? Â Overreaction or a valid concern?

4 comments

Chris
November 22, 2014 at 5:11 am

Stay classy, PHL-based US flight attendants!

Howtofreetravel
November 22, 2014 at 6:03 am

Overreaction for sure but this is most likely not the worst we will hear about and was she comped a hotel at least?

anon
November 22, 2014 at 12:12 pm

SHE’s overreacting. They gave her a free hotel and new flight and were just being safe. Sounds to me like she’s blowing it out of proportion to get on a soapbox for medical school…

AlohaDaveKennedy
November 22, 2014 at 1:39 pm

Hard to say as allergies range from mild to life threatening. How is the attendant to know? When flying the first rule is to keep required medications on your person.