Swine flu alert: Experiences of air passengers returning from Mexico

Apr 28 2009 by Paul Suart, Birmingham Mail

MEXICO flight passengers Christopher and Melissa Douglas, from Leicester, returned to Birmingham Airport today from a two-week resort holiday.

Mr Douglas said: “We were in a hotel complex which we didn’t leave, then all of a sudden a number of the chefs were wearing masks.”

Stephen Taylor and fiancée Rebecca Wadley from Mansfield, were in a resort three hours from Mexico City.

Mr Taylor, 48, said: “A few people were wearing masks at the airport but no one seemed particularly worried.”

Ms Wadley added: “We feel fine but we will be finding out more about the symptoms just in case.”

Hannah Giddings, from Peterborough, said: “We didn’t know anything about it until we got on the plane.

“If I had known 80 people had died I would have wanted to be on the next plane out of the country.”

Chrissie Walker, who had returned from Hong Kong, believed authorities there were taking more precautions. She said: “I just coughed in the airport and I was stopped and given a spot check.”