WASHINGTON — Airline stocks are tumbling after news that the second health worker to be diagnosed with Ebola flew on a commercial flight the night before reporting a fever.
Shares of the major U.S. airlines were down between 4 percent and 6 percent in midday trading Wednesday.
Frontier Airlines announced that public-health officials were notifying passengers on Monday night’s Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth. The airline’s crew reports that the woman showed no symptoms during the flight.