The airline has replaced its honey-roasted peanut products with other snacks, such as crackers. In addition, within the next few weeks, Korean Air will remove food containing peanut ingredients from in-flight meals.
Korean Air has moved swiftly to ensure the health and safety of passengers who are allergic to peanuts. The move follows a recent incident when two teenage brothers were unable to board a flight because of a peanut allergy.
The brothers were travelling from Atlanta to Manila but were stranded in Seoul after Korean Air did not agree to a request to stop serving peanuts around the teens because the older brother has a severe peanut allergy.
The airline has replaced its honey-roasted peanut products with other snacks, such as crackers. In addition, within the next few weeks, Korean Air will remove food containing peanut ingredients from in-flight meals.
Korean Air conceded the decision to remove peanuts from its inflight snacks was a direct result of the incident in Seoul involving the two brothers.
The airline said it was determined to provide a safe environment for all passengers and prevent any similar cases in the future.
Korean Air has a history with peanuts.
In 2014 Korean Air’s chief executive Cho Yang-ho's eldest daughter, Heather Cho, made headlines when she lost her temper over the way she was served nuts in First Class and ordered the Korean Air plane to return to its gate at a New York airport.
The carrier's shareholders last week removed Cho Yang-ho from its board in a vote over scandals stemming from the nut rage case.