Southwest Airlines deprives me of peanuts, saves lives {Gadling}

Mar 20th 2008 8:20PM Yes, the dust from peanuts is enough to cause a severe allergic reaction (enough to case a Southwest flight to be forced to go into emergency landing status). I think you would rather have an ontime flight or close to it and no peanuts then a diverted flight (due to medical emergency) and being late by a good 3-4 hours.