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Virgin Atlantic staff shift focus to national coronavirus effort

Charity
James Chapple
31 March 2020

Furloughed Virgin Atlantic staff are set to become temporary check-out staff, supermarket shelf stackers and delivery drivers, and take on a wide range of other roles across various industries to support the national effort in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Virgin Atlantic staff will turn their hand to other vocations during the coronavirus crisis

Airline employees are being redeployed to various roles, paid and voluntary, across the healthcare, grocery, retail and customer services sectors, with Virgin working with a number of organisations to provide roles for its staff.


Virgin has partnered with London Ambulance Service and Epsom Hospital Carshalton, while some staff have signed up for the new NHS Volunteer Responder scheme.


Elsewhere, it was revealed on Monday (30 March) cabin crew are being asked to consider roles at the new NHS Nightingale hospital at London’s ExCeL Centre.