Tag: Air Travel

Thomas Nellon, left, 17, and his brother Johnson Nellon, 14, of Liberia, smile at their mother in the arrivals area at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Reversal: Obama sets Ebola travel restrictions

Paul Bedard · October 21, 2014 4:37 pm

Effectiveness of Ebola travel ban questioned

Erica Werner · October 18, 2014 10:10 am

In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Coast Guard Health Technician Nathan Wallenmeyer, left, and CBP supervisor Sam Ko conduct prescreening measures on a passenger, right, who arrived from Sierra Leone at O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 5 in Chicago. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Melissa Maraj)

Ebola causing some people to change travel plans

David Koenig · October 18, 2014 3:53 am

FILE- In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, file photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Coast Guard Health Technician Nathan Wallenmeyer, left, and CBP supervisor Sam Ko, right, conduct prescreening measures on a passenger who has arrived from Sierra Leone at O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 5 in Chicago. Demands are rising in Washington for the U.S. to ban travelers from countries in West Africa, but the Obama administration is resisting and says the screening measures already in place for travelers are more effective. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Melissa Maraj, File)

Rules vary about travel to countries hit by Ebola

The Associated Press · October 17, 2014 8:32 pm

Beltway Confidential

This top Obama official explains why the U.S. shouldn’t ban travel from Ebola-infected countries

Becket Adams · October 16, 2014 9:23 pm

House divides on partisan lines on best Ebola response

Susan Ferrechio · October 16, 2014 8:45 pm

Emergency crews stand next to a plane, carrying 163 people, at the Madrid Airport, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. An Air France plane was isolated at Madrid's airport on Thursday because of a suspected Ebola case after a passenger was reported to have a fever and shivers, officials said. The passenger, who had traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, was taken by ambulance to an unspecified hospital in Madrid but the rest of the passengers were allowed to leave the plane as normal, Air France said in a statement. (AP Photo/Antoni Manchado)

Spain tests 4 with fever for Ebola, isolates jet

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2014 8:28 pm

The Frontier Airlines plane that Amber Vinson flew from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday, flies out of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Cleveland. Vinson is the second nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. The plane on which Vinson flew back to Dallas was decontaminated twice and was to be used for a flight Wednesday that was later canceled. The plane departed Wednesday evening for Denver carrying no passengers, said Jacqueline Mayo, Cleveland airports spokeswoman. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Fresh Ebola fears hit airline stocks

David Koenig · October 16, 2014 3:40 am

Speaker Boehner said President Obama should "absolutely consider" a travel ban from West African nations stricken with the Ebola virus. (AP File Photo)

Boehner: Obama should consider travel ban from Ebola countries

Susan Ferrechio · October 16, 2014 12:05 am

Czechs to screen passengers for Ebola at airport

Washington Examiner · October 15, 2014 5:47 pm

Dallas Police patrol the entrance to The Village Bend East apartments where a second healthcare worker tested positive for Ebola, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Dallas. The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was monitoring herself for symptoms, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said. The unidentified woman reported a fever Tuesday. She was in isolation within 90 minutes, Jenkins said. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)

CDC: Nurse exposed to Ebola should not have flown

Mike Stobbe · October 15, 2014 5:46 pm

CDC director: health worker exposed to Ebola should not have traveled on a commercial airline

Washington Examiner · October 15, 2014 5:05 pm