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SEOUL (Reuters) – Korean Air Lines announced Sunday it stopped serving peanuts as snacks to customers, in response to a recent incident when two teenage brothers were unable to board a flight due from a peanut allergy.
The brothers' parents said in the media earlier this month that their sons had been removed from a plane because the South Korean airline did not want to deal with a severe peanut allergy.
The two brothers were traveling from Atlanta to the Philippines, but were stranded in Seoul after Korean Air did not agree to stop serving peanuts to teenagers because his older brother had severe peanut allergy, US reported. Today and Good Morning America.
Korean Air has a long history of peanuts in recent years, its image being tarnished by the infamous "nut rage" scandal of 2014.
The senior daughter of Executive Director Cho Yang-ho, Heather Cho, made headlines when she lost her cool because she was served as a crazy first-clbad girl and ordered Korean Air plane to return to his door at a New York airport.
The carrier's shareholders sacked Cho Yang-ho from its board of directors in a landmark vote on the Nut Rage scandals on Wednesday. He became the first member of the founding family of a large South Korean group to be forced to leave his board of directors.
Korean Air will remove food containing peanuts from meals in flight in several weeks, the company said in a statement.
"The decision to stop peanut-based products and their ingredients is the minimum safety measure for peanut-allergic pbadengers," he said.
Reporting by Ju-min Park; Edited by Paul Tait
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