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Severe peanut allergy ends up costing British family £5000 ($10,390). BBC weather presenter Georgie Palmer, 49, along with her husband Nick Sollom, 48, and daughters Rosie, 12, and Annie, 14, were kicked off a SunExpress flight after asking passengers to not eat peanuts due to Rosie’s severe allergy. Nick Sollom told The Telegraph they were removed from the three-and-a-half-hour flight from London Gatwick to Dalman, Turkey, after the captain and crew refused to accommodate their request to announce Rosie’s peanut allergy to the whole cabin.

Her allergy is extreme and being near peanuts can trigger an anaphylactic shock for the 12-year-old, so the couple wanted to take extra precautions during the flight. Read more: Passenger claims BA deplaned her family over son’s serious allergy to nut dish Sollom said he encountered the first red flag of their experience when booking the flight. He said there was no way to notify the airline about his daughter’s allergy and he only saw a simple “once on board, please inform our cabin crew about your allergies” on the airline’s website.



On the day of the flight, the personnel at the SunExpress check-in desk also told him to inform the cabin crew once on board. However, once in the cabin, Sollom claimed the crew “didn’t really care” when he made a request to ask other passengers not to eat nuts. He said the captain also refused to help the family and locked himself in the cockpit, leaving the cabin crew to resolve the is.

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