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Tuesday, 14 October 2014

BBC News

• Heathrow to start screening for EbolaBorder staff at Heathrow airport are to start screening passengers flying into the UK for possible symptoms of Ebola.

Financial Times

• Petrobras holding back Brazil’s airlinesState-controlled oil group’s jet fuel pricing policy under fire from industry

The Guardian

• UK to start fever tests for Ebola at Heathrow airportNew measure comes as health secretary Jeremy Hunt says it is likely that virus will be diagnosed in UK by end of yearPassengers will have their temperatures tested for suspected Ebola at Heathrow terminal one from Tuesday but it will be impossible to check all the 1,000 people a month arriving from the worst affected countries, the UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt has admitted.Hunt said it was likely that Ebola would be diagnosed in the UK by the end of the year but the best estimates suggested there would probably be less than 10 cases over the next three months. Continue reading...

The Herald

• Ebola screening at Heathrow is UK's first line of defenceAIRLINE passengers will be subject to enhanced screening for Ebola at Britain's biggest airport from today as UK ministers insisted

The Telegraph

• Ebola crisis: 'huge disruption' expected at Heathrow as screening beginsExperts have warned that enhanced screening is unlikely to stop Ebola arriving in Britain and will bring 'huge disruption' to travellers

Mail Online

• UK could see 10 ebola cases by Christmas: Hunt's warning as Heathrow screening starts today  As the death toll in West Africa passed 4,000, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that screening for ebola will begin at London Heathrow Airport today. 

The Mirror

• Ebola 'temperature tests' to start at Heathrow Airport as UK braces itself for killer virusHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt told Parliament screenings will start on Tuesday and and follow at Gatwick and Eurostar terminals by the end of the week

London Evening Standard

• Heathrow's expansion calls grow louder after record month The chief executive of Heathrow has re-iterated calls to expand the airport as its freight business grew rapidly last month.
• Ebola UK: Screening to begin at Heathrow as UK steps up preparations Screening for Ebola will start at Heathrow tomorrow as Britain dramatically steps up its readiness to deal with up to 26 cases at a time of the killer virus.

Aviation Industry

• Heathrow posts record September traffic figures6.58 million passengers passed through the airport last month
• Heathrow Ebola screening to start TuesdayScreenings to start at Gatwick and St.Pancras in next few days

Other News Sources

• Stansted flying high as September passenger numbers break records Stansted Airport has seen its largest monthly increase in passenger numbers in over eight years* as it flew over 1.8 million passengers in September, an increase of 230,000 (+14%) compared to the corresponding month last year.