A woman was left fearing for her life after an airline refused to stop selling strawberry daiquiris on her flight, despite her severe strawberry allergy.
Chloe Fitzpatrick, 24, was heading to Ibiza for a four-day girls’ holiday on 18 August, having set off from Manchester Airport with her 27-year-old sister Lucy.
Fitzpatrick, who suffers from a severe airborne strawberry allergy, said she felt ‘discriminated against’ when the cabin crew manager refused to stop selling food and drink products on board that could have sent her into anaphylactic shock.
She said she informed staff about her allergy as she boarded – asking for rosé wine, strawberry daiquiris, fruit pastilles and Haribo sweets to not be sold – claiming the approach had been accepted previously by other airlines.
However, Jet2 say their terms and conditions state that a severe allergy should be made aware to the team at the time of booking and, in this instance, this did not happen.
Instead, cabin crew made an announcement to inform passengers of her allergy, asking them not to consume strawberry products on the plane, but Fitzpatrick says Jet2 continued to sell the items from the food trolley.
Fitzpatrick, from Read in Lancashire, said: “If I had a reaction, I’d go into anaphylactic shock and my airways would start closing and could die.
“I couldn’t even go to the toilets on the flight because I could have been surrounded by strawberry products that could make me seriously ill or could have killed me.