Airlines Fly Away From Ebola, Leaving Aid Workers Stranded
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Now the travel restrictions are going the other way, too: British officials over the weekend told an African-based carrier, Gambia Bird, it could not operate a nonstop flight from London to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Gambia Bird had planned to resume the London-Freetown route on Friday to bring back a flight used by both nongovernmental organizations and business travelers, an airline spokesman said.
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To work around the scarcity of commercial flights, Save the Children personnel have been relying on flights by Brussels Airlines from Belgium and by Royal Air Maroc from Casablanca, the two major airlines that have maintained service to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. Air France has also kept its flight from Paris to Conakry.
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Using charters over commercial flights could solve the current air service problem for NGOs, if not for citizens of the affected countries. And to Rodgers, that just illustrates a truism charitable organizations have understood for decades: ?Like any other logistical problem,? he says, ?if you throw money at it, it goes away.?
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Now the travel restrictions are going the other way, too: British officials over the weekend told an African-based carrier, Gambia Bird, it could not operate a nonstop flight from London to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Gambia Bird had planned to resume the London-Freetown route on Friday to bring back a flight used by both nongovernmental organizations and business travelers, an airline spokesman said.
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To work around the scarcity of commercial flights, Save the Children personnel have been relying on flights by Brussels Airlines from Belgium and by Royal Air Maroc from Casablanca, the two major airlines that have maintained service to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. Air France has also kept its flight from Paris to Conakry.
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Using charters over commercial flights could solve the current air service problem for NGOs, if not for citizens of the affected countries. And to Rodgers, that just illustrates a truism charitable organizations have understood for decades: ?Like any other logistical problem,? he says, ?if you throw money at it, it goes away.?
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