Airline stocks tumble on fresh Ebola fears
Source: AP-Excite
Airline stocks are tumbling after news that the second health worker to be diagnosed with Ebola flew on a commercial flight the night before reporting a fever.
Shares of the major U.S. airlines were down between 4 percent and 6 percent in midday trading Wednesday.
Frontier Airlines announced that public-health officials were notifying passengers on Monday night's Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth. The airline's crew reports that the woman showed no symptoms during the flight.
Frontier says because of the short time between the flight and her fever, health officials were contacting all 132 passengers from the flight. Public-health professionals will interview the passengers and monitor those deemed to be at risk for contracting the virus, Frontier says.
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Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)How are people going to travel? By ship?
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Since driving is more dangerous than flying.
Some people because of their fears, will actually die by driving more.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)today....I'm disgusted.
Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Now the free market has motivation to contain ebola.
Cause if they don't, rich people will lose a lot of money.
BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)Yesterday, stocks were up because there was
less fear. Go figure!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts).
quadrature
(2,049 posts)into Ebola hot zones.
earnings could suffer.
on the other hand,
fuel prices are down
VScott
(774 posts)than Ebola can ever do.