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Liberia, Aid Groups Criticize British Airways’ Decision to Extend Suspension of Flights
Flyer Talk ^ | October 10, 2014 | Joe Cortez

Posted on 10/12/2014 11:13:09 AM PDT by QT3.14

British Airways is receiving pushback from multiple stakeholders after extending their stop on flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Telegraph reports that the U.K. flag carrier announced its suspension of flights to Ebola-affected countries, which was initially scheduled to last through December, will continue until March 2015.

In August, the airline first ended its weekly scheduled flights from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Lungi International Airport (FNA) in Sierra Leone, as well as all flights to Roberts International Airport (ROB) in Liberia. According to The Wall Street Journal, British Airways cancelled the flights “due to the deteriorating public health situation in both countries.”

Officials within the Liberian government have since expressed their concerns over British Airways’ plan of action. “We need as many airlines coming in to this region as possible, because the cost of bringing in supplies and aid workers is becoming prohibitive,” Liberia’s information minister, Lewis Brown, told The Telegraph. “I can understand BA’s initial reaction back in August, but they must remember this is a global fight now.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: africa; britishairways; ebola; liberia
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To: RightGeek

Stakeholder has come to be a meaningless term. You need skin in the game to be a stakeholder, yet that is not how the word is used.


21 posted on 10/12/2014 11:40:34 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: null and void

Bring out your dead

22 posted on 10/12/2014 11:43:35 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: DoughtyOne
dump off supplies at a place at the airport where everybody has been removed. Then leave.

With technology, it would be totally possible to teach the people who've stayed healthy to work together to get their nations through the crisis.

Those who have the finances and the health leave their country mates behind, then expect other nations to deal with the crisis, that's just wrong.

This insanity of people leaving....isn't the first rule of stopping an epidemic containing it?

23 posted on 10/12/2014 11:48:23 AM PDT by grania
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To: QT3.14

If Obama won’t stop flights from these hellholes, maybe the airlines will. Can’t imagine the flight crews are happy about serving potential Ebola patients.


24 posted on 10/12/2014 12:25:19 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: grania

Grania, I think that’s a reasoned observation. I can’t disagree with it.

As it relates to medical supply availability, these nations don’t have our supply resources.

Yes, their citizens should step up. We can debate that. Right now it’s important for the West to see this outbreak knocked down.

I do think some assistance is in our own best interest. Where you see things they could be doing better inside those nations, I’m probably going to agree with you as I do here.


25 posted on 10/12/2014 12:39:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: Black Agnes

Didn’t Duncan fly from Brussels to Washington-Dulles on United Air Lines?

And the flight eight days ago with the barfing Liberian....another United flight, from Brussels to Newark.


26 posted on 10/12/2014 12:41:50 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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To: QT3.14
1) use air drops
2) let the aid workers charter Ebola only planes
3) quarantine any and all who have been in the hot zone Tough noogies if they don't like it.
27 posted on 10/12/2014 12:50:09 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

And United cleans their aircraft with Fantastik!. Which isn’t antimicrobial in the least.

Feel safer yet?


28 posted on 10/12/2014 1:30:15 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: QT3.14

Well, we citizens of the U.S. who believe that our government should care for us before all others praise Britain and any other nation that looks after its nationals before all others. They’re simply trying not to import this problem. If only we had a leader here in the U.S. who believed that WE COME FIRST. We’ve sent our military to build hospitals (ridiculous, but it’s a “contribution,” if you want to see it that way) and we’ve sent millions of dollars in aid to Africa. That’s enough. It’s citizens’ turn to be first priority.


29 posted on 10/12/2014 1:43:15 PM PDT by Inkie
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

30 posted on 10/12/2014 1:53:51 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


31 posted on 10/12/2014 8:37:43 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!


32 posted on 10/13/2014 3:06:21 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: JimSEA
they must remember this is a global fight now

Remember those words. They explain, completely, what is going on and also explain, completely, the policies of our government.

33 posted on 10/13/2014 3:13:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Boycott airlines that allow Weat Africans to fly!


34 posted on 10/13/2014 3:15:58 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: QT3.14

Once upon a time the British were the enemy, but now the enemy is closer to home.


35 posted on 10/13/2014 3:20:28 AM PDT by windsorknot
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