{"id":4681,"date":"2014-08-06T18:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2014-08-06T18:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:58:13","slug":"ebola-ba-suspends-flights-to-liberia-and-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/ebola-ba-suspends-flights-to-liberia-and-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola: BA suspends flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways has suspended flights to and from Liberia and Sierra Leone until the end of August amid concerns over the Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The airline normally has four flights a week from London Heathrow to Freetown in Sierra Leone, with a connection to Monrovia in Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>BA said the move was due to the &#8220;deteriorating public health situation&#8221; in the two west African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can get a refund or rearrange their flight for a later date&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-28663833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways has suspended flights to and from Liberia and Sierra Leone until the end of August amid concerns over the Ebola outbreak. The airline normally has four flights a week from London Heathrow to Freetown in Sierra Leone, with a connection to Monrovia in Liberia. BA said the move was due to the &#8220;deteriorating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086,1109],"tags":[258,256,3425,3428,1111,1443,1359,3427,4712,1107,3426,1088,257,4714,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-british-airways","tag-deteriorating-public-health-situation","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-outbreak","tag-heathrow","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-london","tag-monrovia","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}