Mum 'almost passed out' after BA crew gave her 'pitiful' meal on 9-hour flight

dailystar.co.uk:

British Airways “ruined” her dream Caribbean holiday with a hard-to-understand meal booking system that left her making do with a “pitiful” in-flight meal of crisps, popcorn, celery and chocolate donated by flight crewMum-of-two Amber Fisher suffers from coeliac disease.She says BA’s “confusing website” led her to believe she simply had to inform crew of her allergy upon boarding to be provided with a gluten-free meal.But after boarding the nine-hour flight on Saturday 5 February, the 32-year-old hairdresser was informed by a member of cabin crew that she should have booked her meal in advance.The cabin crew then scraped together some gluten-free food from the onboard snacks and their own lunches, leaving Amber with a "pitiful" meal of carrot and celery sticks, chocolate buttons, crisps, popcorn, nuts, a couple of chocolate bars and a tangerine.But the meagre meal left the hairdresser so "starving" on the long haul flight to the Dominican Republic that she almost fainted and began vomiting - ruining her trip as it gave her "major anxiety" for the rest of her holiday.She complained about her experience online to raise awareness of the issues faced by coeliacs but was branded a “dramatic idiot” by some commenters who claimed she should have known to prebook her special meal.Amber, from Isleworth, London, said that when she explained she couldn’t eat the standard in-flight meal: "The air hostess said 'we'll have to see what we can do' and then brought me that."She said 'we've taken food out of the crew food too' which was basically carrot sticks and celery sticks."I was like 'for nine hours you expect me to eat this?' and she was like 'that's all we have'.