Frontier Airlines Chief Executive David Siegel said late Wednesday that he has ordered the removal of seat covers and carpeting from the plane that carried an Ebola-stricken flier after health officials said she might have had symptoms on the flight.
Siegel said the Denver-based low-cost carrier also put the four flight attendants and two pilots who flew the plane on paid leave for 21 days -- the typical time period it takes to develop Ebola symptoms.
Amber Vinson, a nurse at the Dallas hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola, flew from Dallas to Cleveland on Friday on Frontier Airlines and then returned to Dallas on the same carrier Monday.
Vinson tested positive for Ebola on Tuesday, but Siegel said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified Frontier that she may have shown signs of the illness earlier during that flight.
Frontier Airlines said the plane Vinson flew on Monday was given a routine but "thorough" cleaning Monday night, but then was in use for five flights Tuesday before the carrier was notified by the CDC that she had Ebola. Siegel said the plane was immediately taken out of service Tuesday night.
The plane, an Airbus A320, was flown Wednesday to Denver without passengers for another cleaning. Siegel said the seat covers and carpet will be removed around the area where the Ebola patient sat.
"These steps were taken out of concern for the safety of our customers and employees," Siegel said.
The move comes as Frontier passengers expressed fear they had been exposed to the deadly disease.
Katherine Green, who sat in a Frontier plane Wednesday morning in Cleveland before the airline switched her and other passengers to another plane, said she fears she may have briefly sat in the plane that carried the Ebola patient.
"It's weird Frontier doesn't mention they boarded passengers on this plane Wednesday and that they didn't inform us in any way," she said.
Meanwhile, Frontier's Facebook page was crowded Wednesday with more than 200 comments and questions from passengers about how the plane was cleaned and what is being done to make sure the plane is safe for use.
Frontier said it will eventually put the A320 plane back in service.
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