Airline's nutty warning

Flight attendants did everything they could to protect a passenger with a severe nut allergy - then served up muesli.

Fellow fliers were warned not to eat any nuts or even open a cereal bar for fear of triggering an anaphylactic reaction, reports Daily Telegraph.

But the crew ruined all their good work when they began handing out puddings topped with muesli. The label said: "May contain nuts."

A tannoy announcement told travellers flying from Geneva to Gatwick: "One passenger has a very severe nut allergy so could no one either eat nuts or even open a packet of nuts while on board."

Marcus Primhak, 34, of Cardiff, said: "We were flying back from a skiing holiday and were really hungry.

"First they asked us not to eat any nuts. Next they asked us can we not open a pack of nuts. We had some cereal bars but put them away.

"But when they served us the meal we had a look at the fruits of the forest yoghurt and saw it had all this muesli on top and the label said it contained nuts. We were too scared to eat it."

Airline Thomsonfly apologised for upsetting passengers and said the yoghurt had been incorrectly labelled. It did contain muesli but there were no nuts.