{"id":50366,"date":"2014-09-23T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=50366"},"modified":"2014-09-23T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:05:21","slug":"air-france-suspends-flights-to-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/air-france-suspends-flights-to-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Air France suspends flights to Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"
Air France has also suspended flights to Sierra Leone at the request of the French government.<\/p>\n
The decision comes after the airline’s staff signed a petition calling on their employer to avoid Ebola-hit countries for their own safety.<\/p>\n
Unions representing employees called on the airline to halt its flights to and from West African countries that are grappling with the worst Ebola outbreak ever.<\/p>\n
The disease has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa.<\/p>\n
Air France announced that it has temporarily halted its three flights a week to Freetown, Sierra Leone, but said it is maintaining its flights to Conakry, Guinea, and to Lagos, Nigeria, cities it flies to once a day.<\/p>\n
The French government said the increasing spread of Ebola notably in Liberia and Sierra Leone prompted its request for suspension of Air France flights to Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
The decision follows an announcement by British Airways that it is extending its flight suspension to Liberia and Sierra Leone to December.<\/p>\n
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By:\u00a0 Norvan Acquah – Hayford\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Air France has also suspended flights to Sierra Leone at the request of the French government. The decision comes after the airline’s staff signed a petition calling on their employer to avoid Ebola-hit countries for their own safety. Unions representing employees called on the airline to halt its flights to and from West African countries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[23,4],"yoast_head":"\n