Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) will curtail its West African operations in the wake of the most recent outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which has now claimed the lives of over 1'100 people.

In a statement issued last week, the Kenyan national carrier said it would suspend flights to Freetown and Monrovia Roberts with effect from August 19. Both airports were served via Accra.

"Following the [Kenyan] Ministry of Health statement issued today; Kenya Airways wishes to confirm that we will comply with the advice to suspend our commercial flight operations to Liberia and Sierra Leone temporarily. This operational decision, effective Tuesday 19th August 2014 midnight, is based on the situation risk assessment by Kenya’s Ministry of Health," it said.

So far, British Airways (BA, London Heathrow), Emirates (EK, Dubai International), Gambia Bird (Banjul), Arik Air (W3, Lagos), ASKY Airlines (KP, Lomé) and Air Côte d'Ivoire (HF, Abidjan) have suspended their respective flights to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia with Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) scheduled to terminate its Accra-Monrovia Roberts extension of its New York JFK-Accra flights from August 31.