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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Hundreds of Virgin Atlantic cabin crew sue for unfair dismissal

Cabin crew dress in red outfits and wearing face masks
Virgin Atlantic staff with passengers at Heathrow in November 2021 at the reopening of the New York to London route after Covid. Photograph: Doug Peters/PA

Hundreds of long-serving Virgin Atlantic cabin crew are suing the airline for unfair dismissal, claiming that the airline used Covid redundancies to target older staff.

An employment tribunal in London will start examining more than 200 cases next month, at which former crew will argue that Sir Richard Branson’s airline unfairly made them redundant while retaining cheaper new hires.

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