Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek
Originally Posted By: Smokescreen
Here is a link of countries that actually do have a flight ban from some African areas:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...tute-Travel-Ban
The list is quite long of which countries have banned what...but even Britain, France, Korea etc have some kind of restriction in place. In North America though...we are open for business on all fronts and ports of entry.
The site you referenced is pure political propaganda. Besides, you didn't even read it. All the countries with travel ban are in Africa. There is not a single country outside Africa with travel ban.
As for the cancelling flights from Africa, US has no direct flights from affected countries. If they were, they would be cancelled by now. duh!
The information on the bans is correct, the rhetoric leading up to it has some sort of agenda. I have found the same flight information on other travel sites like:
https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=435&language_id=ENG
While entire countries outside of Africa don't yet have bans on travel they do have restrictions, mostly all implemented by the airlines themselves...if there are airlines that aren't willing to go there it is effectively a signal that flight there is restricted...as in not wide open unstopped. Here are details of airlines that have restricted flights to Ebola-affected countries:
-Air France suspended flights to Sierra Leone from 28 August.
-The Togo-based carrier Asky Airlines has suspended flights to and from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
-Arik Air (Nigeria), Gambia Bird and Kenya Airways have suspended services to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
-British Airways has extended their suspension of flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone until 31 December.
-Emirates Airlines has suspended flights to Guinea.
-Korean Air suspended flights to and from Kenya from 20 August.
-Senegal Airlines has suspended flights to and from Conakry (Guinea) until further notice.
There are many direct flights to Africa. Have you heard of Expedia or other booking agents? There are still flights available from USA to Africa and vice versa. One could book one right now from Liberia to Washington, JFK, LGA...from $796 round trip off American Airlines. There are no warnings or anything stating they shouldn't book either. Not sure where you found your information, please share so that we can have a more complete data set to draw from.