DYKWIA

Do you have the Internet?

LMGTFY

ashkale

Seems rather serious, last week BA crew donned gas masks on a flight to Nice..new threat in the sky?

DYKWIA

And a jet2 flight to LBA a few days ago. I'd wager the causes will all turn out to be different

pogonation

beachmouse

I actually liked the first two seasons of Vainlla Ice's house-flipping reality show. He knows his market well.

salut0

safari_7

I would think there usually is an incubation period for a cold/ virus??? I mean I'm sure more people may end up sick in the coming days .....

However, the article posted makes it sound like people got sick on the plane? Surely, in most cases it takes more than 14 hours to get sick?

malmostoso

I had a similar experience (no quarantine!) around that time, BRU-ORD on UA where a girl traveling from Africa felt sick on the plane. BRU is a rather large hub for flights to Africa since SN has a good business going.

Anyway we arrived at ORD and doors didn't open, all FA's remained sitting (and you know something is actually wrong when FA's look worried or don't know what to do). I jokingly said to my seatmate "let's see some hazmat suits" and of course a couple of minutes later the captain came on the speakers and explained that we had a sick passenger on board. CDC officials came on board and visited the passenger, and found out that the poor girl was allergic to mayonnaise and she ate a sandwich with that. Nonetheless we were all given a yellow form where we were asked to write our contact information, and nobody was allowed to leave the plane without giving this form to the CDC officials at the door. I was in J so it didn't take me long, I'm sure the last passenger in Y left the plane a lot later than I did.

JamesKidd

Ignore others. She's the inventor of modern day Vanilla Ice cream as you see in stores today.

extramileage

Given that the sick count is now 7 crew and 3 pax, it's unlikely it's MERS as the crew couldn't come down with it so fast.

So it could be a stomach bug or similar passed from the pax to the crew. Could be catering, but one would think that a greater number would be affected then.

Not sure if they can operate an A380 with 7 missing crew.

EK 204 on Thu Sep 6 is currently listed as having a 3.5 hours delay, so maybe they got cleared by medical or they sent some additional crew over to operate that crew's return flight today (they would need some time to rest a bit on arrival,even as deadheads I suppose).

S.R

ashkale

There is certainly something more to
this..
CDC Investigating After Multiple Passengers Fall Ill On Separate International Flights Coming Into Philadelphia International Airport...

salut0

ashkale

Seems likel there is afterall a common connection..

ncsuactor84FT

Any info on what the cause of the illness was? Have an Emirates flight coming up, and the lack of info on this is somewhat concerning.