Originally Posted by TheManager (Post 1747572)

Frontier Air puts 6 crew on leave as precaution amid Ebola worry

5 hours ago


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Frontier Airlines said six crew members were placed on paid leave for 21 days "out of an abundance of caution," after learning that a nurse who had treated an Ebola victim may have been symptomatic when she flew on the airline earlier this week.

The leave affects two pilots and four flight attendants aboard flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth on Oct. 13, which carried a Texas nurse who later tested positive for the deadly virus, Frontier said in statement late Wednesday.

The Centers for Disease Control had informed the airline Wednesday that the nurse "may have been symptomatic earlier than initially suspected, including the possibility of possessing symptoms while on board the flight," the statement said.

The nurse, Amber Vinson, 29, was isolated immediately after reporting a fever on Tuesday, Texas Department of State Health Services officials said. She had treated Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola on Oct. 8 and was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States.

(Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

Originally Posted by Delta1067 (Post 1747530)

DTW, NYC and MSP ERB are behind the backdoor. Refinery made 16 million in Q3.

Originally Posted by satchip (Post 1747627)

Sailingfun, earlier you posted that there would be 900 million or so in profit sharing. Is that in addition to what was already paid out or was the Sep payment part of that? Will we get a Feb check and how much, roughly?

Originally Posted by iceman49 (Post 1747620)

Cool, so we lose. buttload on fuel hedges, but make 16 mil on the refinery...so isn't that a -331on fuel stuff?

Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1747372)

See ya 747s......

Originally Posted by satchip (Post 1747627)

Sailingfun, earlier you posted that there would be 900 million or so in profit sharing. Is that in addition to what was already paid out or was the Sep payment part of that? Will we get a Feb check and how much, roughly?

Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 1747403)

I love it when people complain about Obama Care and don't even understand what it is. While I may not agree with the whole "act", I think it is important that people at least understand what it is and how it works. All of us will be buying our health care insurance that way within 5 years anyways so you just as well get to know what we've got.

You have just as much chance of getting shuffled around on UHC insurance through Delta as someone does who purchases insurance through an exchange. No one is "on" the affordable care ac,t they buy insurance through an exchange. In fact, in some states people "on" the affordable care act have access to the exact same plans we do from UHC, they just pay more in premiums. So, they have no more chance of being denied coverage than you or I do.

In my area I can purchase a BCBS HSA plan from the exchange that is almost identical to what Delta is offering in the Silver HSA plan for 2015. Delta will charge me about $200/mo while on the exchange the plan costs about $750. Right now that is not very "affordable" unless I become unemployed and don't have access to an employer provided plan. If I had to pay COBRA premiums to keep my Delta UHC plan I would be just over $1000 an month so at that point it is a more affordable option to get health care coverage for my family.

At the end of the day, either way I get my health insurance it is provided by a private insurance company. As long as I "choose" the plan that has the coverage I need, I should not get denied coverage if I get Ebola whether I have UHC insurance through Delta or through an Exchange.